Mail-Followup-To (was Re: breaking long header lines into 2 (or more) lines)

Will Yardley mutt-users at veggiechinese.net
Fri Apr 27 17:50:47 UTC 2018


On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 08:57:50AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> 
> I always thought $followup_to was a pretty nice feature.  While I
> sympathize with Matthias, the mischief was the result of
> misconfiguration, and Mutt requires nothing if not attention to the
> documentation and configuration.
> 
> However, if there is a strong majority of mutt-users subscribers that
> agree with $followup_to defaulting to 'no', I'll make the change.

I think it's a nice idea too, but the draft (which expired 20 years ago)
never became a standard.

I'd argue that if one of Mutt's claims to fame is standards-compliance,
dropping support for it or not defaulting it to on might be the better
option.

w



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