On 2016-07-27 22:34:56 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 01:32:43PM +0300, Emanuele Giaquinta wrote: > > Hi, > > > > long time ago I wrote a patch set for the following enhancement request: > > > > https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2976 > > https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3244 > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532766 > > In the last bug report, Michelle Konzack made some pretty good points > about why not to bother with this patch. > > In particular, the MUA (and the user) are, and should be, free to add > whatever headers they desire to aid in the processing and managment of > the mail they manage. I believe Michelle is correct: Tools that > compare messages should rely on the body (and/or the message ID, which > *should* be unique), and not any other headers. One of the bugs also > explains why Mutt adds those headers (an optimization), and by and > large their addition should not be of any consequence to the user... > Tools whose behaviors are impacted by arbitrary message headers are, I > think, broken.
In particular, the "Lines:" header is used inside Mutt to display the number of lines in the index (%l). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
