nmh-workers
[Top] [All Lists]

[Nmh-workers] Re: 1.3 release and Dcc/Bcc behaviour

2007-04-08 21:01:43
Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

Robert Elz wrote:
   From:        Joel Reicher <joel@panacea.null.org>
 | I get the feeling this might be catching many people, and my preference
 | would be to put "-msgid" in the defaults for "send".

I might too (see below for possibly why not), if MH were just being released
now - but this kind of change to default options is a really annoying thing
to have happen.

I agree with this point -- by now almost the only people who are using
nmh will be long-time users, I expect, and it would be rude to break their
existing setups like this. I think the best thing we could do would be to
document a sort of "best practice" configuration, and perhaps arrange
for install-mh to set new users up that way.

My view is that not having a Message-Id in your +outbox messages is a
lot more broken than having a sub-optimal Message-Id. The chance of it
being broken (being non-unique) is non-zero, but damn near. So,
"breaking existing user's setups" is a bit strong.

While having install-mh add a send: -msgid component is a good idea,
it isn't enough. It doesn't help the folks like me that ran install-mh
back in 1985 and only found out on 2003-04-23 about the -msgid option,
cursing the absence of a Message-Id in my outbox all the while.

One thought is to roll out a version 2 and document it loudly.

-- 
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>  http://www.newt.com/wohler/  GnuPG ID:610BD9AD



_______________________________________________
Nmh-workers mailing list
Nmh-workers@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>