Re: idea for sending a recipient name correction back to e-mail author

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:35:10 +0200 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote: 

SJ> 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?

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

Works for me, as long as there's a specific "you've misspelled my name"
action associated with the vcard (perhaps as the MIME type or something
else), rather than "here is my contact info."

Does Gnus+BBDB recognize vcards now, or is this entirely new code?  I've
never used vcards so I don't know much about their interaction with BBDB
or Gnus.

Ted