Re: [PATCH 0/3] composing patches

Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] composing patches

Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 23:30:56 +0300

To: Michal Sojka

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Felipe Contreras


Sorry for the long delay.

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Dec 2010, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> I don't know how it works in gnus, but at least on the vim mode, the output
>> generated by 'notmuch reply' is not ready to be sent, at least the Message-ID
>> field is needed, and also is nice to have the User-Agent.
>
> I'm not sure whether filling the message-id in notmuch is a useful
> thing. With Emacs UI I often send messages which differ only in small
> pieces to several people. I prepare a first version of the message and
> send it, then I edit the sent message and send it once again etc. All of
> these messages should have a different message-id and date headers.
>
> If you want to allow the UI to send a single message multiple times (and
> I find it useful) then you need generate the message-id at the time of
> sending and as such it has no sense to generate the headers in notmuch.

Well, if you have a client that is capable of generating such a
Message-Id, this patch would prevent it from doing so. This is mostly
intended for dummy clients, like none at all (sendmail).

-- 
Felipe Contreras

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