As I slowly start this reply, I am pondering the response that is
appropriate. On one hand there is a very specific reason for this
capability, and on the other there is a more general argument about
designers deciding what capabilities they provide the user based upon their
style or preferences or preceptions about what the user "really would enjoy
to do(?)".
<*Specific*> - What product would you recommend to create a mail message to
send to a 'mail2news' portal. Where the message is part of a thread. A
"References: " header is needed. This can't currently be done with Moz.
<*General*> Not adding capabilities can be justified in multiple ways:
-- Designer / implementer ego .... "I do it a different way, so should you".
-- Provable limited usefulness ... Supported studies document that only
'n of m' users would use the capability, and the effort is not justified.
-- Our architecture didn't anticipate that, and it is too big an effort
to redesign (i.e Y2K (was done anyway), 32 bit 'time' value, Mozilla's 1
cert per person database...). This reason is not often admitted to.
-- "We never thought anyone would do that" or "Why would you want to do
that?) = limited imagination.
All of these are valid (maybe not #4). But in this case it seems that the
pulldown menu could be augmented through the preferences with a pair of
strings like {"Reference","References: "} which are the
{menuitem,mailheader}. But then I am not a developer...
Victor Probo
Wolf Eichler wrote:
> Well, that is a bit of a confusion what is meant by "user". In the
> parlance of RFC eggheads this means developers of internet communication
> systems, or "senders" and their environment in general. For regular
> folks sitting before a mail client there is scarcely an option for
> inserting header fields - which nobody really would enjoy to do(?).
>
> - Wolf
>
> Victor Probo wrote:
>
>> On a related topic, just how would this be implemented? I searched for
>> anything about adding 'user defined header' and found nothing.
>>
>> How would one add the "X-Priority", or better yet, "References: "
>> header in the mail composer?
>>
>> Victor Probo
>>
>>
>> Wolf Eichler wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any standard or quasi-standard for the socalled "user
>>> defined header fields" in mail messages? In particular I am
>>> interested in the contracts for of "X-Priority".
>>>
>>> - Wolf
>>>
>>
>
