Re: filling the References header

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:

> You could fill it in message-send-mail just before passing it off to
> the message-send-mail-function. Normally i would advocate for
> letting the user see the message as nearly exactly as it will be
> sent before sending it, but this seems like a reasonable exception.
> 
> You might consider just putting a hook there and providing a
> function that fills all the headers or a specified list of headers
> before sending for users to put in that hook.

Yes...  but this feels a bit unclean.  We want the default to be:

1a) No filling of the References header in news articles
1b) Filling of the References header in mails

2) The user should see the header as it will be sent

These are somewhat contradictory.

Adding `message-{mail,news}-filled-headers' variables seems like
overkill.

Hm.

Perhaps `message-send-mail-hook' should just be initialized to
`(message-fill-references)'?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen