On 2024-02-25 09:48:23 (+0700), Dave Crocker wrote:
On 2/24/2024 5:25 PM, Philip Paeps via mailop wrote:
On the whole, I think not meddling with the body (and not breaking
DKIM) provides an improved mailing list experience. We don't have
to rewrite the From: header, and "reply" works the way the poster
intends. Neither the mailing list software nor the recipient has to
guess.
Sounds like a win.
Generally, whatever is typically put in the footer can reasonably be
move to a header field, although of course that means users will
typically not automatically have it presented to them.
A different issue is that it tends to be helpful for the Subject field
to show that a mailing list is involved, though that will typically
break DKIM...
We also stopped prefixing the Subject: header with information
duplicated from the List-Id header.
Not being able to present information in the Subject: or body clearly
isn't ideal, but it's better than breaking DKIM. List-* headers have
been in widespread use for over twenty years. I hope MUAs will finally
start displaying them.
It's actually encouraging to see the web-MUAs driving improvement in
this space. Parsing List-Unsubscribe: to present a button feels like a
very obvious thing to do. It's surprising how few traditional MUAs have
ever done that.
Philip
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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Alternative Enterprises
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