On 25 Nov 2014, at 15:27, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
> On 24 Nov 2014, at 22:22, Christopher LILJENSTOLPE wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing a behavior where MM strips capitalized text followed by a : in
>> the subject line (it strips "CR:", for example). I would assume that's to
>> deal with any RE:, SV:, etc. so that you don't end up with RE: RE: RE....
>
> That is correct. It even handles chinese symbols after this was reported as a
> problem.
>
> It's a bit aggressive to do it like this, but subject lines often become very
> ugly.
>
>> However, it's breaking the poor benighted souls in my company that use
>> Outlook (Outlook threads on Subject line). We use tags (like CR:) to
>> identify what the e-mail is (for example, "CR: foo" means a report about a
>> call with foo).
>
> Ah, so when you reply then it ruins their threading, because the `CR:` is
> missing. I was mainly concerned about the loss of information when I
> implemented it, but no-one complained until now :-)
>
>> Any chance of having a dictionary of text to strip, rather than a '??:' ?
>
> That might actually be the best (only) way to solve it. The current solution
> is hardcoded in a settings file (`specifiers.plist`). You can change it, but
> it's not straightforward to do so. I'll note that I should somehow make it
> easily configurable, e.g., with a regular expression (it's currently
> `{Alpha}{2,3}`).
Thank's Benny. I've looked in the specifiers.plist - oh my.... Thought about
trying to adjust it, thought about a barge pole, and decided not to. :)
Christopher
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