From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 42596bd 2/6: Little improvements in rmail.el. Recognize encryped override headers.
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 14:17:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef56467bdfd9d44c656c@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef56467bdfe07ebd91e5@heytings.org>
>>> + ;; Debbugs sometimes adds `[External] :'; if that happened,
>>> + ;; delete everything up thru there. Empirically, that deletion makes
>>> + ;; the Subject match the other messages in the thread.
>>
>> This is not accurate -- it's just Drew that insists on adding that
>> string to his subjects. I find it pretty odd to add general code to
>> Emacs to handle a single person's Subject mangling.
>
> I don't think Drew does this himself. It's probably something that the
> MTA (mail transport argent) from Oracle adds. I've seen similar
> behavior from other people on other mailing lists, most often with
> [External] or [EXTERNAL], so I would make the comparison
> case-insensitive.
>
See https://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/114496 for a possible
explanation. This is typically something big corporations or government
agencies do; for another example on this mailing list, see the posts from
Stephan Mueller (microsoft.com), which use [EXTERNAL].
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[not found] ` <20210512030949.65CD421128@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2021-05-12 8:16 ` master 47070ed 6/6: Merge branch 'master' of git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/emacs Robert Pluim
2021-05-12 12:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-13 4:53 ` Richard Stallman
2021-05-13 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-14 5:23 ` Richard Stallman
2021-05-14 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-14 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-14 14:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-05-16 4:37 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <20210512030948.6448F21128@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2021-05-12 12:17 ` master 42596bd 2/6: Little improvements in rmail.el. Recognize encryped override headers Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-12 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-12 13:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-12 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-12 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-12 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-12 15:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-12 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-12 15:54 ` Robert Pluim
2021-05-12 14:03 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-12 14:17 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2021-05-13 4:52 ` Richard Stallman
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