From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32081 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: (provide 'nnmaildir) Date: 11 Aug 2000 17:34:17 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <20000715005611.8018.qmail@multivac.student.cwru.edu> <20000717182810.13970.qmail@multivac.student.cwru.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168412 17739 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:46:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:46:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B35ED051E for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 09:55:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAC01535; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:34:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:33:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA16013 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:33:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (multivac.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu [129.22.239.69]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 85699D051E for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:34:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 18536 invoked by uid 500); 11 Aug 2000 21:34:17 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "11 Aug 2000 23:07:43 +0200" Original-Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32081 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32081 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > On 11 Aug 2000, Paul Jarc wrote: > > nnmbox ought to remove the `From ' line when moving articles rather > > than changing it to a X-From-Line: field. > > Since the From_ line contains useful information, I'd rather not have > Gnus throw it away. Sure, that information should be kept - but should Gnus dictate that it be kept in the message header, when it isn't necessarily part of the message? This mandates lossage, which is unfortunate. Maybe -request-move-article functions could set up variables containing the envelope sender and delivery time (that's what's in the From_ line, right?) and then the receiving -request-accept-article function could put those values somewhere appropriate for that backend's storage format. (It would be cleaner to pass the values as arguments, but that would require changes to Gnus itself, in the accept-form business, instead of just the backends.) For maildir, the delivery time is the file's last-modified time. In general, the envelope sender isn't necessarily stored anywhere, although when qmail delivers a message to a maildir, it adds a Return-Path: field for the envelope sender. paul