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Re: Prevent "Re: " prepending to subject when replying (patch



Am 19.11.2009, 18:00 Uhr, schrieb Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On 2009-11-19, Bertrand Yvain <pnl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

please consider this patch that adds a boolean configuration option,
reply_prefix.  When turned off, the "Re: " prefix will not be added to
the subject of a reply, unless the subject was empty.

As someone pointed out in another thread, maybe in mutt-users,
mutt's hard-coded "Re: " is not very international.  Perhaps a
better way to handle this would be to make 'reply_prefix' a string
option defaulting to "Re: ".  Then you could have the behavior you
want by setting it to an empty string and others could customize it
with, for example, "Aw: ".

Which is annoying, bad practice, and should be in the criminal code with a minimum penalty of 1 year (use) or 5 years (localizing it).

I really do not want to see Re: AW: R: Re: AW: RÃp: AW: Re: subject, and this is exactly what will happen. People who cannot be bothered to accept that Re: is a fixed string and token deserve to be kept away from mail.

In what situation do you not want the subject of your reply to begin
with "Re: " or your national language equivalent?

There is no situation where deviation from IETF standards would be acceptable. Local hacks aren't for public consumption.

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Matthias Andree