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 _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch