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Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-26 15:09:47

On 2012-03-26, at 12:26 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:

Well, what if GNU Mailutils folks buy these changes? Then they would
have to change the header fields to mailutils-* which would be annoying.
Worse, it would then make the header fields incompatible when in fact
they would be compatible.

This header is just an implementation wart ... it's really only to
communicate between different programs.

And this is why it's wrong to pretend they are headers.  It leads to exactly 
this sort of misunderstanding.  I still say the syntax should chance so there's 
no confusion as to what they really are – meta commands to nmh programs.

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