message-to-cc-style

message-to-cc-style

[jidanni]

Gentlemen, I know about `message-from-style', but how am I to stop
myself looking like a fool who sends mails with headers like
To: "wvononurd@gmail.com" <wvononurd@gmail.com>
Indeed, I don't even want any
To: William Von O'Nurd <wvononurd@gmail.com>
names on my outbound messages, just plain
To: wvononurd@gmail.com
(Except in the rare cases when some CC'd person should know who other
recipients' names are.)

You see, my mails must represent my spartan personality. Lean, clean,
with no unnecessary blubber.

So it seems a new message-to-cc-style is needed.

Re: message-to-cc-style

[yamaoka]

>>>>> jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> Gentlemen, I know about `message-from-style', but how am I to stop
> myself looking like a fool who sends mails with headers like
> To: "wvononurd@gmail.com" <wvononurd@gmail.com>
> Indeed, I don't even want any
> To: William Von O'Nurd <wvononurd@gmail.com>
> names on my outbound messages, just plain
> To: wvononurd@gmail.com
> (Except in the rare cases when some CC'd person should know who other
> recipients' names are.)

> You see, my mails must represent my spartan personality. Lean, clean,
> with no unnecessary blubber.

> So it seems a new message-to-cc-style is needed.

Making it customizable is somewhat troublesome but it's easy
only to make recipients' addresses plain:

(defadvice message-get-reply-headers (after make-addresses-plain activate)
  "Make the recipients' addresses plain."
  (dolist (adrs ad-return-value)
    (setcdr adrs (mapconcat 'cadr
			    (mail-extract-address-components (cdr adrs) t)
			    ", "))))

Re: message-to-cc-style

[Simon Josefsson]

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> Gentlemen, I know about `message-from-style', but how am I to stop
> myself looking like a fool who sends mails with headers like
> To: "wvononurd@gmail.com" <wvononurd@gmail.com>
> Indeed, I don't even want any
> To: William Von O'Nurd <wvononurd@gmail.com>
> names on my outbound messages, just plain
> To: wvononurd@gmail.com
> (Except in the rare cases when some CC'd person should know who other
> recipients' names are.)
>
> You see, my mails must represent my spartan personality. Lean, clean,
> with no unnecessary blubber.
>
> So it seems a new message-to-cc-style is needed.

Isn't that style disallowed by RFC(2)822?  IIRC, you'll have to write:

To: <wvononurd@gmail.com>

Although this may only be a theoretical problem, and all implementations
handle 'To: foo@bar.org' fine.

/Simon

Re: message-to-cc-style

[jidanni]

>> Indeed, I don't even want any
>> To: William Von O'Nurd <wvononurd@gmail.com>
>> names on my outbound messages, just plain
>> To: wvononurd@gmail.com

SJ> Isn't that style disallowed by RFC(2)822?  IIRC, you'll have to write:
SJ> To: <wvononurd@gmail.com>

Reading RFC2822,

   address         =       mailbox / group
   mailbox         =       name-addr / addr-spec
   addr-spec       =       local-part "@" domain

   To: Mary Smith <mary@x.test>, jdoe@example.org, Who? <one@y.test>

   ...Notice also that jdoe@example.org and boss@nil.test have no
   display names associated with them at all, and jdoe@example.org
   uses the simpler address form without the angle brackets.

Re: message-to-cc-style

[Simon Josefsson]

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

>>> Indeed, I don't even want any
>>> To: William Von O'Nurd <wvononurd@gmail.com>
>>> names on my outbound messages, just plain
>>> To: wvononurd@gmail.com
>
> SJ> Isn't that style disallowed by RFC(2)822?  IIRC, you'll have to write:
> SJ> To: <wvononurd@gmail.com>
>
> Reading RFC2822,
>
>    address         =       mailbox / group
>    mailbox         =       name-addr / addr-spec
>    addr-spec       =       local-part "@" domain
>
>    To: Mary Smith <mary@x.test>, jdoe@example.org, Who? <one@y.test>
>
>    ...Notice also that jdoe@example.org and boss@nil.test have no
>    display names associated with them at all, and jdoe@example.org
>    uses the simpler address form without the angle brackets.

Right.  It is the same in RFC 822 too, so I must have mis-remembered.  I
wonder what corner-case I was really thinking of...

/Simon