Re: Mail-{Followup,Reply}-To

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

Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net> writes:
> Paul> message-use-mail-followup-to
> Paul>   nil  always ignore MFT
> Paul>   use  always use MFT
> Paul>   ask  always ask
> Paul>   t    use MFT if it matches To+Cc (not To+Cc+From), otherwise ask
> Paul> Sound good?  I think the default should be t.
> 
> I think that t should mean "always use" - that's the intuitive meaning.

I was just trying to be parallel with message-use-followup-to, which
uses t (actually, any non-nil value other than the ones with other
meanings explicitly assigned to them) to mean 'conditionally ask'.  I
haven't written this code yet, but it'd probably also not explicitly
compare to t - any unrecognized value would be interpreted this way.
So the real question is: what value do we *document* as producing this
behavior?  In case more values are given meanings in the future,
perhaps with one of the new interpretations grabbing unrecognized
values, what value should we guarantee will retain this meaning?  t is
probably not a good choice for that.  I think I'll go with
ask-unless-trivial.


paul