[Email-SIG] fixing the current email module

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Fri Oct 9 01:20:23 CEST 2009


Glenn Linderman wrote:
>
>However, there are definitely mailing lists that don't do that.  Google 
>Groups is one example that doesn't collapse, and always prepends the 
>headers in front of Re:.  Seems like all the Python lists do the 
>collapsing (I wonder why! :) )  Other lists don't do prepending (I think 
>the RFCs recommend not prepending in Subject, actually), of the others 
>I'm subscribed to, that prepend, some collapse and some don't.


You seem to be forgetting the case where the encoded subject already
contains the prefix, or do you not care if the subject just continues
to grow with Re:'s and repeated prefixes?

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