On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 09:52:51AM -0700, googly.negotiator...@aceecat.org wrote: > 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.
Mutt has some builtin support for handling / cleaning that up IIRC, via the $reply_regexp setting. If you communicate with a lot of people who use non-standard ones like Aw, IMO, it's better to adjust this setting than to just kill it all with fire. > And to think of it, I'm starting to feel the same about Re and its > siblings as I do about the tags. I had assumed that 'Re: ' was a should or a must, but it's actually just a "may"? https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2822.html#section-3.6.5 That said, IMO, it's a pretty standard convention (using one instance of "Re: ", that is, not repeated instances of it, or localized variants). w
