From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: message-use-mail-followup-to
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 00:31:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vgl5mkbi.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
This patch against current CVS adds a variable
message-use-mail-followup-to akin to -use-followup-to, and restores
the old default of m-u-f-t. (IIRC, the default for m-u-f-t was
changed for the sake of Mail-Followup-To, but what we really want is
different behavior for mail vs. news.)
diff -u -r6.93 message.el
--- lisp/message.el 2001/06/25 17:49:51 6.93
+++ lisp/message.el 2001/07/07 04:26:00
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@
:group 'message-interface
:type '(choice function (const nil)))
-(defcustom message-use-followup-to t
+(defcustom message-use-followup-to 'ask
"*Specifies what to do with Followup-To header.
If nil, always ignore the header. If it is t, use its value, but
query before using the \"poster\" value. If it is the symbol `ask',
@@ -413,6 +413,16 @@
(const use)
(const ask)))
+(defcustom message-use-mail-followup-to t
+ "*Specifies what to do with Mail-Followup-To header.
+If nil, always ignore the header. If it is the symbol `ask', always
+query the user whether to use the value. If it is the symbol `use',
+always use the value."
+ :group 'message-interface
+ :type '(choice (const :tag "ignore" nil)
+ (const use)
+ (const ask)))
+
(defcustom message-sendmail-f-is-evil nil
"*Non-nil means don't add \"-f username\" to the sendmail command
line.
Doing so would be even more evil than leaving it out."
@@ -4019,7 +4029,7 @@
mct (message-fetch-field "mail-copies-to")
reply-to (message-fetch-field "reply-to")
mrt (message-fetch-field "mail-reply-to")
- mft (and message-use-followup-to
+ mft (and message-use-mail-followup-to
(message-fetch-field "mail-followup-to")))
;; Handle special values of Mail-Copies-To.
@@ -4044,9 +4054,8 @@
(save-excursion
(message-set-work-buffer)
(if (and mft
- message-use-followup-to
wide
- (or (not (eq message-use-followup-to 'ask))
+ (or (not (eq message-use-mail-followup-to 'ask))
(message-y-or-n-p
(concat "Obey Mail-Followup-To? ") t "\
You should normally obey the Mail-Followup-To: header. In this
@@ -4057,9 +4066,13 @@
which directs your response to " (if (string-match "," mft)
"the specified addresses"
"that address only") ".
+
+Most commonly, Mail-Followup-To is used by a mailing list poster to
+express that responses should be sent to just the list, and not the
+poster as well.
-If a message is posted to several mailing lists, Mail-Followup-To is
-often used to direct the following discussion to one list only,
+If a message is posted to several mailing lists, Mail-Followup-To may
+also be used to direct the following discussion to one list only,
because discussions that are spread over several lists tend to be
fragmented and very difficult to follow.
next reply other threads:[~2001-07-07 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-07 4:31 Paul Jarc [this message]
2001-07-09 20:09 ` message-use-mail-followup-to ShengHuo ZHU
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=m3vgl5mkbi.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu \
--to=prj@po.cwru.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).