Re: ANNOUNCE: 2a20

From: Paul Haldane <Paul.Haldane_at_newcastle.ac.uk_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 19:51:05 +0100 (GMT)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-960729.990504193622.24629D-100000_at_carr6.ncl.ac.uk>

Couple of things. One (probably dead simple), other less so.

Simple one...

Messages with From: lines of the form

        From: "Paul Haldane" <x_at_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!

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