Interesting (gross?) use of CHANNEL

[Pete Resnick <presnick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I may get flack for this, but I can think of a bunch of good 
reasons to do this:

What do people think of using "mailto" in CHANNEL? That is, if I have 
a message in a mailbox, I can CHANNEL it using a mailto URL in order 
to effect the sending of the message. My thought is that the target 
of the mailto should only be the envelope recipient and should not 
change the contents of the message header in anyway. In my ideal 
picture, the server would take the message and prepend Resent-* 
fields using the destination and whatever other fields are specified 
in the URL. You would, of course, only be able to CHANNEL to mailto 
for an entire message or for a subpart which was itself of type 
message/rfc822. This seems to me an ideal way to implement the Resend 
command in many clients, and could even be used to send draft 
messages out for the first time.

I'm guessing that I know some server vendors who would be willing to 
implement this and it would be a nice proof-of-concept of CHANNEL 
without having to get a bunch of much fancier clients up and running.

Thoughts? Does this need a separate I-D?

pr
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