On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 08:44:15PM +0200, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > Btw your subject field does not have the Re: at its beginning, > I find it surprising. :)
Right, I know. This is a long story and not very mutt related but I think the traffic will allow for it :) I edit my emails in emacs with a specialized hand written mode. In the mode hook I do various cleanups on the article, and one of them is to clean the Subject header of the prefixed junk. Here I mean especially the list tags like "[exim-user]" which I hate with a passion, and I'm so grateful to the mutt list admins for not enabling them. But the thing is, in the course of following up with MUAs which implement replies differently, the tags can -- and do -- become intermixed with the Re prefix, and with the alternative prefixes in other languages (Aw is relatively common with German writers). Then you end up with a long string of *repeated* and intermixed prefixes and tags. And it becomes nontrivial to clean that up while also remembering if there originally was a Re or not. Much simpler to just remove everything. And to think of it, I'm starting to feel the same about Re and its siblings as I do about the tags. With any decent MUA you know that the article is a reply or followup by its position in the thread. So Re is just for the same foolish systems that need the tags in Subject because they can't tell it's a list thread. -- Ian
