On 2010-04-08 10:05, martin f krafft <[email protected]> wrote:
> also sprach Philipp Weis <[email protected]> [2010.04.06.1943 +0200]:
> > * Replacing your script with the new minimal wrapper will not change
> >   this script behaves at all. Mutt does all the mailto URL parsing
> >   that your script used to do -- no functionality will be lost.
> 
> But didn't you say that mutt mailto cannot handle arbitrary headers,
> like my script can?

Mutt itself does support arbitrary headers in mailto URLs as of now.


> > The combination of these two points does break the current
> > behavior in that exotic header attributes will no longer work out
> > of the box. What do you think would be the right way to alert the
> > user about this, and is this even necessary?
> 
> At the very least, there should be a NEWS entry. I also think that
> it makes sense to have the wrapper output a warning (e.g. cat the
> NEWS stanza) to stdout, nudging the user to stop using the wrapper.
> That'll be a self-fulfilling profecy.

Sounds reasonable. I'll keep an eye on this and come back to it once
the new upstream code is released.

Philipp 


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