Hi all,
I'm moving this discussion to gossip because it is of general
interest. There are about 1000 uses of The Mail Archive's reply
feature every day. Based on David's request, I've put together
preliminary support for In-Reply-To to help with threading. You can
see it in action with curl and I'm also appending the relevant PHP
fragment. I don't think I have it quite right yet, especially with
respect to escaping, so suggestions are appreciated. It is a little
hard for me to test because my particular email setup
(Chrome/Ubuntu/GMail) does not seem to respect this feature at all.
To answer the other question, the reply feature intentionally goes to
the sender instead of the list. This seems like a reasonable balance.
Specifically, it avoids having messages silently dropped, which is a
very common list setting for non-subscribers. Plus a number of list
administrators feel more comfortable with private replies, and making
the hoi polloi do a little more work in order to contact the entire
list. Some admins have been very vocal about this preference.
$ curl -s -D - -d 'subject=Re: "challenging" subjectline' -d
'[email protected]' -e
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01001.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailto.php | grep Location
Location:
mailto:[email protected]?Subject=Re%3A%20%5C%22challenging%5C%22%20subjectline&In-Reply-To=%3Cabc123%40mail.gmail.com%3E
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$msgid = $_POST['msgid'];
$header = "Location: mailto:$name@$domain?"; .
"Subject=" . rawurlencode($subject) . "&" .
"In-Reply-To=%3C" . rawurlencode($msgid) . "%3E";
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From: David Woodhouse http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2011-March/001193.html
you'll see the mailto: link at the top includes '&In-Reply-To=...' so
that threading information is correctly preserved. The link is:
mailto:get_iplayer%40lists.infradead.org?Subject=Re:%20Re%3A%20Broken%20list%20threads&In-Reply-To=%3CAANLkTi%3DdDPQ3LnN0_G86AXO4gFrX3%3DvqbsDK_40FocHq%40mail.gmail.com%3E";
But your copy of the same message at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01077.html
ends up with an HTTP redirect to a mailto: URL *without* the correct
threading information:
mailto:[email protected]?subject=Broken%20list%20threads
Please could you fix your mailto: links to include correct threading
information? Thanks.
I actually have a filter on my mailing lists so that messages with 'Re:'
in the subject but no In-Reply-To: or References: headers are trapped
for moderation, but these replies bypass that by omitting 'Re:' from the
subject line too!
Also, you don't seem to give a way to reply to the *list*; only the
original sender. I think users who reply using your archive are manually
editing the To: header to reply back to the list instead of to the
sender? Is that intentional?
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dwmw2
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