Re: cc:Mail messed up Re[2]: subjects

["Dewey M. Sasser" <dewey@newvision.com>]

>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@mindspring.com> writes:

    Joe> Can message.el be changed so that whenever it is stripping
    Joe> out Re:'s, it does this:

    Joe> [Rr][Ee]\\(\\[[0-9]+\\]\\)?:

    Joe> so that my replys don't look like "Subject: Re: Re[2]: foo"?

See (gnus)Washing Mail.

What I've done is this:

(defun auto-split-correct-re ()
  "Correct re: headers"
  (let ((case-fold-search t))
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (if (re-search-forward
	 "subject:[ \t]*\\(\\(re\\(>\\|:\\)+\\)+\\)[ \t]*" nil 't)
	(progn
	  (goto-char (match-beginning 1))
	  (delete-region (point) (match-end 1))
	  (insert "Re: ")))))

(add-hook 'nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook 'auto-split-correct-re)

I haven't run into your particular problem, but you can modify that
regexp to handle it.  If you do so, pleased modify the function name
to avoid conflict with my auto-split package (which I'm releasing in
the near future).


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