On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:07:09 +0000 Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > > While I agree that adding custom headers is likely to be a pain and > make users come up with hacks, some headers are very well > standardized. Most notably In-Reply-To and Message-ID. IMHO, and > "id" for the bug should be the Message-ID of the original email, and > any "comments" should be In-Reply-To said email. That way you can > just reply to a bug from your email client and it works. Just like a > mailing list :) >
Valid email message must contain at least the following entries in header [1] [2]: - From - Date - Message-ID - (only for reply msg) In-Reply-To "Subject" is not required by specifications, but in practice it is a standard. Anyway that means you'll get at least 4 lines overhead for first message and 5 lines header for replies. Removing that can lead to weird behavior. [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6 [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.4
