Matthew Dharm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 19 May 2000:
> > Nope, sorry. There's been talk of ways to solve this, and I think even
> > the best way has been figured out (creating a pseudo-operator which tells
> > that the next pattern operator should match against the headers of the
> > replied-to message, not the current message, which could then be used in
> > send-hooks). It's just that nobody's done it yet.
>
> Interesting. I guess people view 'reply' as just a special case of
> 'send'... I actually view them as very different things, but oh well.
Well, if you don't, then you run into all sorts of issues like which do
you process first, reply-hooks or send-hooks? Or you could set things
so that when doing a reply, only reply-hooks get executed, and
send-hooks only become active when doing a new mail -- but that would be
duplicating a lot of stuff a lot of the time, then.
The last time it was discussed (and I was the one proposing reply-hooks
then) I at least became convinced that what I described was the best way
to implement it. Whatever the solution is, you at least make sure the
user can ensure a send-hook can undo actions from a "reply-hook" (or
comparable), and vice versa.
> Well, if nobody is working on this, can someone give me a couple of
> pointers of good places to start? After the linux kernel, this can't be
> too hard (famous last words).
Actually, I'm not that familiar with Mutt code. :-) Even if I've
created one patch for Mutt -- which was soon regarded as superfluous and
I came to use a different solution myself, too. :-)
You may want to ask this on the mutt-dev list...
> The problem is that reverse_name doesn't change my address because the mail
> I'm replying to was addressed to a mailing list, not to any of my
> alternates. So my from is my default from.
Right. Unless you determine that this address means it's a reply to a
list email, but then it could also be a completely new email just as
well.
Mikko
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