Re: new Mail-Followup-To patch...please take a look...

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> wrote:
> E.g. have a single parameter 
> 
>             mail-address
> 
> which states the main mail address associated with the folder,

Can we make it a vector?  Some lists have widely-used aliases in
addition to the primary address; all of these should be used for MFT.
For mail-types that apply to "a" and "f", we'd just use the first
entry.

If it is a vector, then we might let it be a list of address-type
pairs, but I'm not sure that would be useful.

>             mail-type
>                 Unknown (default)
>                 Personal        use m-a for "a", don't set 
>                 Open List       use m-a for "a", set MFC
>                 Closed List     use m-a for "a" and "f", set MFC
> 
> which state what type of folder it is.

What would Unknown mean?  I.e., how would code react to it?  I think
it might be better to have no Unknown value and make, say, Open List
the default; I imagine that'd be the most common case.  Either that,
or ignore mail-address(es?) when mail-type is not set.  (Since these
are new parameters, we won't be affecting any existing configurations
with the choice of default.)

Hmm... would it be easier to just use posting styles for "a"?

> The "to-list" and "to-address" parameters should then be recognized
> for backward compatibility,

Does this mean the MFT code should do anything with them, or only the
code that already uses them?


paul