From: Paul Haldane (Paul.Haldane@newcastle.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 04 1999 - 13:51:05 CDT
Couple of things. One (probably dead simple), other less so.
Simple one...
Messages with From: lines of the form
From: "Paul Haldane" <x@y.z>
show the author as "Paul Haldane" (with the quotes). I think it would
look better without.
Bigger thing - threading. With the example mailbox tacked on to the end
of this message, hypermail doesn't recognise any of the messages as being
part of a thread (I guess because there are no in-reply-to/references
records and hashreplylookup() no longer uses the date/subject fields to
construct threads). I think hypermail should do its best to include all
messages in a thread even if the user's MUA hasn't bothered to include an
in-reply-to. I'd have thought that matching on subjects should be good
enough for this.
I personally don't think that hypermail should try to be too clever here -
if a message does have a valid in-reply-to then we should believe it (even
if the subject line is completely different).
Second problem - the second and third messages both get 'maybe reply'
entries pointing at themselves. I think what needs to happen here is for
hashreplynumlookup() to be passed the number of the current message so
that it can reject itself as a match (may also apply to
hashreplylookup()).
Paul
> I added my new from-parser and corrected some problems related to
> from-parsing in 2a19. I am very curious in how this version will run for you
> lot!
>From anon0@anon.net Wed Jan 7 19:37:14 1998
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 19:33:50 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <Marcel-1.26-0107193350-0b0iukG@sherwood.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Emergency Services Action Team (ESAT)
From: Anon0 Anonymous <anon0@anon.net>
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>From anon2@anon.net Wed Jan 7 20:59:00 1998
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 20:41:08 -0800
Message-ID: <01bd1bef$a3284160$6226989e@midwife.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Emergency Services Action Team (ESAT)
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>From anon2@anon.net Thu Jan 8 19:11:25 1998
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 19:05:38 -0800
Message-ID: <01bd1cab$76766d60$6226989e@midwife.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Emergency Services Action Team (ESAT)
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