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

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

Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> "Matt Armstrong" <matt+dated+1006984700.195575@lickey.com> writes:
>> Anyway, I was reading http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html and in
>> particular, this portion:
>>
>>     You may want to warn the user when he views a message where he's
>>     not included in Mail-Followup-To. This usually indicates that the
>>     user has subscribed to a mailing list shown in Mail-Followup-To,
>>     but hasn't told you about that mailing list. Or it may indicate
>>     that someone is redirecting the discussion.
>
> Yes, this wouldn't be hard, but when should this warning happen?

The excerpt above says "when he views".  When displaying a message, if
MFT exists, and none of the given addresses would cause MFT to be
generated for a response, then we can give a warning, and maybe offer
to add the address (if there's only one) to this group's parameters
(assuming the new mail-address vector parameter).  This could be used
to automatically add mailing list aliases whenever a new one shows up,
as well as the main address when the user hadn't gotten around to it
yet.

> Warning, using Mail-Followup-To which is not addressed to an address
> that you subscribe to. Continue? (y, n)

I'm not sure what "n" would mean in this case, but it doesn't seem
very useful.


paul