Hello everyone,
There has been work[1] going on implementing forward (as attachment) of
messages. That would (atleast partly) tackle BUG 321378 [2]. I am writing
to gather opinion on how Trojitá should handle the "Fwd" prefixes to
subject lines of messages that are being forwarded, there being two
alternatives:
1. Remove multiple Fwd (or "Fw") prefixes and allow only one "Fwd" prefix.
Eg. "Fw: Fwd: foo bar" becomes "Fwd: foo bar". (NOTE: This is how the "Re"
prefixes are handled when replying to messages in Trojitá)
2. Don't strip down the "Fwd" prefixes to a single occurence.
Eg. "Fw: Fwd: foo bar" becomes "Fwd: Fw: Fwd: foo bar".
My $0.02:
While my first go was at alternative 1, because who doesn't want a neat
looking subject line; After some discussion on IRC with Jan and offline
with Jai (darkapex), I saw the use-cases for the information conveyed by
multiple "Fwd"s in a subject line. Sometimes it is good to know that the
sender of a forwarded message isn't the original recipient. Sometimes it is
good to know that this particular message has been to multiple people (and
how many) who pushed it forward.
However, I would like to broaden my perspective here. As forwarding is a
very often used feature, please share your thoughts on this choice (and
review/test the patch, if you'd like to help). Thanks!
Best Regards,
Karan Luthra
[1] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118606/
[2] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321378
