From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 42596bd 2/6: Little improvements in rmail.el. Recognize encryped override headers. Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 14:17:59 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20210512030946.27770.7288@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20210512030948.6448F21128@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87a6p0kuxi.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17376"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 12 16:25:14 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lgpnV-0004LK-Cx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 12 May 2021 16:25:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42608 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lgpnU-0000d7-Ew for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 12 May 2021 10:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lgpgc-0008AR-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2021 10:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:51928) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lgpgZ-0005Ix-B5; Wed, 12 May 2021 10:18:06 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20210101; t=1620829080; bh=Vblsiy+SjcM0vIWVwxBmpHrond8fWhcOjUROPTiFgcU=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=cIvRiPDFzRIJJnMABecaHDwB9RH1GEVGdkpMEhvHa7rld7Wgl3RoK+T5eqZqufiGq 5kQrK6PpZ1Cp2k0eO8bAZiEJ245Ix+AcGnVbYXvcK3U3yJO88q6QCpYspBrXVMngtb nCjeZEkXQf9bDeIn/FSw+QRWUz0by9oiNcpoQzg+EUw91D3O1W5kmnHrvkB/squJpF Oq3cB2b+O6FQKSnArVwDQPbm+g+93EG1KH1SQtwkDAJ6TYJGuLQepAqst846vRNaEM o6aAj7tjcc7jLbbd1oGmaQ+DsrdA29UrxCiWgVakw8sIpqDCGLCv/0+YKkC9iFVbN2 kn60rR+9DtpPA== In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:269207 Archived-At: >>> + ;; 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].