cc:Mail messed up Re[2]: subjects

cc:Mail messed up Re[2]: subjects

[Joe Hildebrand]

I have some people with whom I associate that use cc:Mail.  It tends
to munge Subject lines differently than normal.  When you reply to a
reply, it adds Re[2]: to the subject, taking out the Re:.

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

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

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

-- 
Joe Hildebrand
Senior Technical Architect
Research and Development
Interlink Group, Inc.

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

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@mindspring.com> writes:
> I have some people with whom I associate that use cc:Mail.  It tends
> to munge Subject lines differently than normal.  When you reply to a
> reply, it adds Re[2]: to the subject, taking out the Re:.
> Can message.el be changed so that whenever it is stripping out Re:'s,

I would say that this falls under the same problem as German versions
of certain Microsoft products using "FW:" instead of "Re:", where the
proper fix is to prevail upon the authors of the broken software to
repair it for their next release, rather than asking the rest of the
universe to accommodate the bugs.

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

[Dewey M. Sasser]

>>>>> "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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