Re: Proposal for richer list text

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:06:05AM +1100, Ben Schmidt wrote:
> I'm wondering if this sounds acceptable. I'll go ahead and have a
> shot implementing it, if so.
>
> I'm thinking of extending the listtext/prepstdreply mechanism to,
> rather than just expect and include a subject header, to allow other
> headers at the top of listtexts, that would/could replace the
> default headers, and to allow greater amounts of the original mail
> to be included, and random and subject substitutions.
>
> The first part would involve representing the default headers (To,
> From, Reply-To, MIME-Version, Content-Type, etc.) in a
> list/structure, then parsing each header line of the listtext,
> removing existing headers from the structure if they match the new
> one, and then adding the new one. Then the structure would be
> reduced to a single string and output.
Heavily in favour of supporting custom headers in listtexts.

I just found out the hard way that subconf mails do NOT have any of the
customheaders on them, and thus ended up getting us in a blacklist for a
while.

Can we get that first part implemented ASAP? One thing I am concerned
about with it, is the ability to append vs. replace headers.

For the moment, I say we just append, not replace.

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