From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 510E36DE0F88 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:02:49 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.658 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.658 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-3.370, DKIM_ADSP_ALL=1.1, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.363] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id As12uMW2FTOm for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:02:48 -0800 (PST) X-Greylist: delayed 901 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at arlo; Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:02:47 PST Received: from blaine.gmane.org (195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no [195.159.176.226]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E5A786DE0F31 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:02:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iUYQb-000ASA-RQ for notmuch@notmuchmail.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:50:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org From: =?utf-8?Q?Antoine_Beaupr=C3=A9?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --message-headers flag to notmuch-show Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:48:54 -0500 Message-ID: <87lfsl6qop.fsf@curie.anarc.at> References: <20191110124929.21903-1-johan.parin@gmail.com> <874kzatox1.fsf@fifthhorseman.net> <87y2wms9r4.fsf@fifthhorseman.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DPJtdaGPNgUEhE3J+Pi+cxIcvSg= X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:02:49 -0000 On 2019-11-11 10:39:11, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Mon 2019-11-11 10:26:18 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> - What is the specific use case for this? For example, can you identify >> situations where different headers need to be emitted by different >> users? Even one motivating example would help others on this list >> understand why they might want to care :) > > ah, sorry, i've just read id:20191109221358.4349-1-johan.parin@gmail.com > and its associated messages, so i can see that some of the questions i'm > asking are already under discussion. > > I see that you just want user-agent and x-mailer for your own purposes. > > Maybe it would be worthwhile to propose that narrow, limited change as a > simple patch, without configurability and see what it looks like? I > would personally be more likely to advocate for merging a patch that > meets the specific needs of a notmuch user, and increase the > configurability surface of notmuch. > > If processing a couple of extra headers on a long thread is too > expensive for some consumer, i'd suggest that is an optimization for the > consumer to tackle. They need User-Agent:, I want Archive-At:, they will want X-Mailer... when is it going to stop? I would rather have configurability here than and endless stream of patches to grow a possibly boundless list... a. -- Brief is this existence, as a fleeting visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. - Albert Einstein