Re: References Header (Re: Why does Gnus generates Lines: header in mail?)

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

Mark Thomas <swoon@bellatlantic.net> writes:

> I know I can set message-generate-headers-first to t (or to
> '("References")) to see the References-header's value, but sometimes I
> delete it (because I'm being "bad" and using "followup" when maybe I
> should be using "new mail"), and I'd like it to stay deleted.

Oh.  Hm.  Message actually has no mechanism for recognizing that
you've removed one of the headers that it usually generates.  For
instance, if you have Organization as a required header, and generate
the headers first, Message will just re-insert the Organization
header.  On the other hand, if you edit the Organization header,
Message won't touch the header.

The same goes for References now that's it's a more normal header.

Hm.  I don't see any easy solution.  Message could keep track of
which headers that were inserted upon group entry, and not try to
generate any of them if they are removed?  But that would create
problems if you delete the From header (generated, say, by a posting
style), meaning to let Message auto-generate the default From header.

*ponder*

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