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Comment 6 for bug 544898

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Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote : [Bug 544898] Re: Add Mail-Followup-To headers and functionality

Hi Ulrich, Great to see things moving again!

> The part for receiving mail is done, see revision 637 in my
> ~ulm/vm/experimental branch. There are two new boolean variables vm-
> honor-mail-followup-to and vm-honor-mail-reply-to.

Should we set these to t by default? Most users won't bother
otherwise.

> - If vm-honor-mail-followup-to is non-nil,
> and the "To" address is found in a list of subscribed mailing lists
> (follow thunderbird and call it vm-subscribed-mailing-lists?)
> then add a MFT header containing the "To" address.

Yeah, that sounds right.

> - If vm-honor-mail-reply-to is non-nil,
> and the "To" address is found in vm-reply-ignored-reply-tos,
> then add a MRT header containing:
> - the address from mail-default-reply-to (if it exists),
> or the vm-mail-header-from address.

Ok, that sounds Thunderbirdish. But I think
vm-reply-ignored-reply-tos is a very confusing name. I never knew
what it was for. Why don't we rename it to
vm-reply-to-mangling-mailing-lists?

Cheers,
Uday