* Replacing "AW:" with "Re:"
@ 1999-09-16 9:36 Jochen Lillich
1999-09-16 10:39 ` Jens Kloecker
1999-09-16 11:03 ` Steinar Bang
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From: Jochen Lillich @ 1999-09-16 9:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi!
The Gnus manual says in "Washing Mail":
Case in point: The German version of Microsoft Exchange adds
`AW: ' to the subjects of replies instead of `Re: '. I could
pretend to be shocked and dismayed by this, but I haven't got
the energy. It is to laugh.
But it doesn't say how to actually do something about that. Now, how
do I replace this annoying "AW:" by "Re:"?
Thanks,
Jochen
--
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* Re: Replacing "AW:" with "Re:"
1999-09-16 9:36 Replacing "AW:" with "Re:" Jochen Lillich
@ 1999-09-16 10:39 ` Jens Kloecker
1999-09-16 11:03 ` Steinar Bang
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From: Jens Kloecker @ 1999-09-16 10:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
>>>>> "jl" == Jochen Lillich <jochen@dynamis.de> writes:
jl> Hi!
jl> The Gnus manual says in "Washing Mail":
jl> Case in point: The German version of Microsoft
jl> Exchange adds `AW: ' to the subjects of replies
jl> instead of `Re: '. I could pretend to be shocked and
jl> dismayed by this, but I haven't got the energy. It is
jl> to laugh.
jl> But it doesn't say how to actually do something about
jl> that. Now, how do I replace this annoying "AW:" by "Re:"?
I use
(defun jk-change-outlook-headers ()
"Change AW: to Re:
in mails produced by the German version of Microsoft Exchange."
(goto-char (point-min))
(if (re-search-forward "^X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service" nil t)
(progn
(goto-char (point-min))
(if (re-search-forward "^\\(Subject: \\)AW:" nil t)
(replace-match "\\1Re:" t)))))
(add-hook 'nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook 'jk-change-outlook-headers)
--
Jens Kloecker
Electronic Technologies, Springer-Verlag
email: kloecker@springer.de
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* Re: Replacing "AW:" with "Re:"
1999-09-16 9:36 Replacing "AW:" with "Re:" Jochen Lillich
1999-09-16 10:39 ` Jens Kloecker
@ 1999-09-16 11:03 ` Steinar Bang
1999-09-16 18:30 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
` (2 more replies)
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From: Steinar Bang @ 1999-09-16 11:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> Jochen Lillich <jochen@dynamis.de>:
> The Gnus manual says in "Washing Mail":
> Case in point: The German version of Microsoft Exchange adds
> `AW: ' to the subjects of replies instead of `Re: '. I could
> pretend to be shocked and dismayed by this, but I haven't got
> the energy. It is to laugh.
> But it doesn't say how to actually do something about that. Now, how
> do I replace this annoying "AW:" by "Re:"?
Personally I use the following procmail rule to wash subject fields
before gnus even sees them:
:0 fhw
| /usr/bin/perl -ne "s/^(Subject:)\s+(S[Vv]:\s*|AW:\s*|Ad:\s*|R[eE](\(\d+\))?:\s*)+/\1 Re: /g;s/^(Subject:)\s+(=\?((iso|ISO)-8859-1|us-ascii)\?Q\?)((S[Vv]|AW|Ad|R[eE](\(\d+\))?)(:|=3[Aa])_*)+/\1 \2Re:_/g; s/\042\'([^\']*)\'\042/\042\1\042/g ; print"
(As well as AW, this takes care of "Ad", "SV" and "RE", and the
"galloping Re: SV: Re: syndrome...)
Unfortunately this doesn't help with USENET messages. :-/
I'm also unable to cover BASE64 encoded subjects (Oh yes! Exchange
and Outlook variants cover them all...).
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* Re: Replacing "AW:" with "Re:"
1999-09-16 11:03 ` Steinar Bang
@ 1999-09-16 18:30 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-09-16 19:40 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1999-09-20 13:26 ` Jan Rychter
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From: Robert Bihlmeyer @ 1999-09-16 18:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
>>>>> On 16 Sep 1999 13:03:58 +0200
>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> said:
Steinar> I'm also unable to cover BASE64 encoded subjects
You mean =?ISO-8859-X?B?....? stuff? Hmm, Gnus should grok these.
Robbe
--
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<robbe@orcus.priv.at> <http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426626/sig.html>
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* Re: Replacing "AW:" with "Re:"
1999-09-16 11:03 ` Steinar Bang
1999-09-16 18:30 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
@ 1999-09-16 19:40 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1999-09-17 7:37 ` Steinar Bang
1999-09-20 13:26 ` Jan Rychter
2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Lars Balker Rasmussen @ 1999-09-16 19:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> (As well as AW, this takes care of "Ad", "SV" and "RE", and the
> "galloping Re: SV: Re: syndrome...)
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't help with USENET messages. :-/
I found that most of the problem disappeared with the following:
(setq gnus-simplify-ignored-prefixes "^\\(Sv: \\|Re: \\)+"
gnus-simplify-subject-functions '(gnus-simplify-subject
gnus-simplify-whitespace))
(fill in your favourite Re-variants).
I don't bother with removing them from articles. Damned if I want to
waste my time cleaning up after Mickeysoft.
--
Lars Balker Rasmussen "Woo hoo!?"
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* Re: Replacing "AW:" with "Re:"
1999-09-16 19:40 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
@ 1999-09-17 7:37 ` Steinar Bang
1999-09-18 9:51 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
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From: Steinar Bang @ 1999-09-17 7:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@image.dk>:
> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>> (As well as AW, this takes care of "Ad", "SV" and "RE", and the
>> "galloping Re: SV: Re: syndrome...)
>>
>> Unfortunately this doesn't help with USENET messages. :-/
> I found that most of the problem disappeared with the following:
> (setq gnus-simplify-ignored-prefixes "^\\(Sv: \\|Re: \\)+"
> gnus-simplify-subject-functions '(gnus-simplify-subject
> gnus-simplify-whitespace))
> (fill in your favourite Re-variants).
Does this fix subjects in summary listings? Or just in the article
itself?
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* Re: Replacing "AW:" with "Re:"
1999-09-17 7:37 ` Steinar Bang
@ 1999-09-18 9:51 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
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From: Lars Balker Rasmussen @ 1999-09-18 9:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> >>>>> Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@image.dk>:
> > (setq gnus-simplify-ignored-prefixes "^\\(Sv: \\|Re: \\)+"
> > gnus-simplify-subject-functions '(gnus-simplify-subject
> > gnus-simplify-whitespace))
>
> Does this fix subjects in summary listings? Or just in the article
> itself?
Only in summary listings. It doesn't bother me in the article itself.
--
Lars Balker Rasmussen "Woo hoo!?"
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* Re: Replacing "AW:" with "Re:"
1999-09-16 11:03 ` Steinar Bang
1999-09-16 18:30 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-09-16 19:40 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
@ 1999-09-20 13:26 ` Jan Rychter
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Jan Rychter @ 1999-09-20 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
>>>>> "Steinar" == Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:
>>>>> Jochen Lillich <jochen@dynamis.de>:
>> The Gnus manual says in "Washing Mail":
>> Case in point: The German version of Microsoft Exchange adds `AW: '
>> to the subjects of replies instead of `Re: '. I could pretend to be
>> shocked and dismayed by this, but I haven't got the energy. It is
>> to laugh.
>> But it doesn't say how to actually do something about that. Now, how
>> do I replace this annoying "AW:" by "Re:"?
Steinar> Personally I use the following procmail rule to wash subject
Steinar> fields before gnus even sees them:
[...]
Steinar> (As well as AW, this takes care of "Ad", "SV" and "RE", and
Steinar> the "galloping Re: SV: Re: syndrome...)
Steinar> Unfortunately this doesn't help with USENET messages. :-/
[...]
We have a similar problem here in Poland with "Odp:". I wrote a couple
of functions that take care of the problem in Gnus (I won't post them,
several nice solutions were already proposed). However, whenever I
reply to any mail and my functions kick in, they also insert a notice
that the Subject line has been processed in that way and refer people to
a web page that explains how horribly broken Microsoft programs are.
As far as USENET is concerned, we have (with a couple of fellow
newsadmins) recently inserted appropriate filtering rules into
filter_nnrpd.pl on most large newsservers in Poland. They cut the crap
from subject lines and insert a notice into X-Notice headers. I can only
recommend that approach to newsadmins worldwide.
--J.
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