On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 01:32:43PM +0300, Emanuele Giaquinta wrote: > Hi, > > long time ago I wrote a patch set for the following enhancement request: > > https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2976 > https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3244 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532766
In the last bug report, Michelle Konzack made some pretty good points about why not to bother with this patch. In particular, the MUA (and the user) are, and should be, free to add whatever headers they desire to aid in the processing and managment of the mail they manage. I believe Michelle is correct: Tools that compare messages should rely on the body (and/or the message ID, which *should* be unique), and not any other headers. One of the bugs also explains why Mutt adds those headers (an optimization), and by and large their addition should not be of any consequence to the user... Tools whose behaviors are impacted by arbitrary message headers are, I think, broken. Personally I have no strong objection, but it seems kind of pointless to me, and I don't prefer to add code that's largely pointless. It's also my opinion that in general, Mutt should not be in the business of working around bugs in other software except BEGRUDGINGLY, when bugs in a ubiquitous tool (like, oh, say Microsoft Out$uck) make interoperability burdensome for the user community as a whole. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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