Peter Maydell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert Elz wrote: >> From: Joel Reicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> | I get the feeling this might be catching many people, and my preference >> | would be to put "-msgid" in the defaults for "send". >> >>I might too (see below for possibly why not), if MH were just being released >>now - but this kind of change to default options is a really annoying thing >>to have happen. > > I agree with this point -- by now almost the only people who are using > nmh will be long-time users, I expect, and it would be rude to break their > existing setups like this. I think the best thing we could do would be to > document a sort of "best practice" configuration, and perhaps arrange > for install-mh to set new users up that way.
My view is that not having a Message-Id in your +outbox messages is a lot more broken than having a sub-optimal Message-Id. The chance of it being broken (being non-unique) is non-zero, but damn near. So, "breaking existing user's setups" is a bit strong. While having install-mh add a send: -msgid component is a good idea, it isn't enough. It doesn't help the folks like me that ran install-mh back in 1985 and only found out on 2003-04-23 about the -msgid option, cursing the absence of a Message-Id in my outbox all the while. One thought is to roll out a version 2 and document it loudly. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
