From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bad mailer Subject meddling (was: links in Help buffer aren't always correct)
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:43:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uy82mp2nm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICGEEMDAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:39:25 -0800
>
> Sorry, I don't know how to fix that in Outlook. I use Outlook 2000, for
> various reasons related to work. It's old, but still a very common (the most
> common?) email client in use. I don't defend it, but it's the one I use.
Perhaps you could try Emacs, if only for posting to Emacs-related
forums.
> If it produces brain-dead subject lines, but it is a very common mailer,
> maybe Rmail's C-c C-n could somehow deal with it by adding extra
> intelligence to handle the retarded output ;-)?
I thought about that, but eventually rejected the idea: it could cause
too many errors due to wrong matches.
> I don't even know what C-c C-n does
It finds the next message with the same subject.
> On a related subject: Unlike the posts to emacs-devel, bug reports get the
> original sender's email address (e.g. "[drew.adams@oracle.com]") prepended
> to the subject line
That's how Emacs formats forwarded messages.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-15 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-13 3:15 [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help buffer aren't always correct] Richard Stallman
2005-12-13 17:17 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-13 19:52 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help buffer aren't alwayscorrect] Drew Adams
2005-12-13 23:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-14 18:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-14 20:02 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-14 22:48 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help buffer aren'talwayscorrect] Drew Adams
2005-12-15 1:11 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-15 2:01 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help bufferaren'talwayscorrect] Drew Adams
2005-12-15 3:16 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help buffer aren'talwayscorrect] Stefan Monnier
2005-12-15 17:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-15 4:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-15 15:39 ` bad mailer Subject meddling (was: links in Help buffer aren't always correct) Drew Adams
2005-12-15 18:47 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-12-16 5:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-16 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-15 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-12-15 17:08 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help buffer aren'talwayscorrect] Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-16 18:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
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