Re: Generating Mail-Followup-To: headers

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Oh, one difference would be that my suggestion goes by the group
>> name, but your suggestion goes by the mail address.  Hm.  Why is it
>> necessary to do it by mail address?
> 
> It should become clear upon reading the spec for Mail-Followup-To:
> 
> 	http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html

Okay, I have now read that spec.  It seems the intention is mainly to
prevent authors to get two copies.  So I think a useful implementation
makes this intention easy, and the rest possible.

Now let's talk about how to prevent the author from getting two
copies.  This can be done by either taking the MFT that's present in
the original message, or by taking the default from To/Cc/Reply-to.
And then we just delete all addresses matching
gnus-ignored-from-addresses from the thusly generated MFT.

Hm.  Of course, this potentially suffers from
gnus-ignored-from-addresses being the wrong variable.

Hm.

Ah, _now_ I see the point: all you need is a list of addresses that
reaches you, and then you can do the MFT generation from that.  As I
described above.

Okay, I think I'm convinced now.

I'm also convinced that pre-initialization of this list can be done
from all the to-list/to-addresses parameters of all groups.

Sorry to be such a bone-head.

kai
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