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From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
To: Ding Mailing List <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: idea for sending a recipient name correction back to e-mail author
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:35:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abrc190x.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m27iml8mu4.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:53:39 -0500")

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> I've often had my name misspelled.  It would be nice if I could reply to
> someone with a message, using a 
>
> X-Incorrect-Recipient: Ted Zlantanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
>
> header (indicating the misspelled address).  Obviously the From header
> would indicate the correct spelling.  The e-mail address has to be the
> same, so you can't indicate an e-mail address change (in this version),
> only a misspelled name.  Gnus would notice the header and ask if BBDB or
> other address books need to be corrected (so this would require some
> changes to accomodate address book backends).
>
> Any suggestions?  Good idea, bad idea?

How about sending a vcard instead, and have bbdb recognize it, and do a
similar action?  It would be somewhat more standards-conforming than
using another X- header.  And it would have the capability to correct
other kind of information than just the name too.

/Simon



  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-20 13:53 Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-24 13:35 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2007-09-27 13:37   ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-27 18:47 ` Reiner Steib
2007-09-27 19:57   ` Ted Zlatanov

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