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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@caltech.edu>,
	Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>,
	Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: v4 of repairing Mixed-up mangled MIME messages
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 14:33:56 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0g2zssb.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9tu508a.fsf@caltech.edu>

Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@caltech.edu> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 14 2019, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>> Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@caltech.edu> writes:
>>
>>> Can we have notmuch auto-apply a tag, like the "encrypted" and "signed"
>>> tags, that indicates mail has been mangled in this way?  I'm feeling
>>> somewhat morally opposed to just silently fixing mail that's been broken
>>> by bad/irresponsible actors on the net.  We need to keep pushing on MS
>>> to fix this issue globally, so I for one would like to be reminded if
>>> I'm still being affected by this.
>>
>> It's side point, but it should rather be a property than a tag if we do
>> something like that. In hindsight I think "auto tags" were probably a
>> design mistake, since they are (easily) mutable by users.
>
> Right, sorry, yes it should be a property.  I agree.
>
> Any reason not to move "encrypted" and "signed" to be properties as
> well?

I guess it would require some client code to be adapted. I'm not sure
what really relies on those tags other than ad hoc searches.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-14 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-09  3:27 v4 of repairing Mixed-up mangled MIME messages Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-09-09  3:27 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] test: add test for "Mixed-Up Mime" message mangling Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-09-09  3:27 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] util/repair: identify and repair "Mixed Up" mangled messages Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-09-14  1:58   ` David Bremner
2019-09-15  7:37     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-09-15  7:38       ` [PATCH v5 " Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-09-15 20:26         ` Tomi Ollila
2019-09-15 23:09           ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-09-09  3:27 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] index: repair "Mixed Up" messages before indexing Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-09-09  3:27 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] cli/{show, reply}: use repaired form of "Mixed Up" mangled messages Daniel Kahn Gillmor
     [not found]   ` <87zhj5xcet.fsf@tethera.net>
2019-09-16 10:49     ` David Bremner
2019-09-17  5:59       ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-09-17 23:36         ` David Bremner
2019-09-14  7:29 ` v4 of repairing Mixed-up mangled MIME messages Jameson Graef Rollins
2019-09-14 11:30   ` David Bremner
2019-09-14 16:08     ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2019-09-14 17:33       ` David Bremner [this message]
2019-09-15  3:05         ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-09-14 17:54   ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-09-14 23:58     ` Jameson Graef Rollins

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