Re: master 42596bd 2/6: Little improvements in rmail.el. Recognize encryped override headers.

[Stefan Monnier]

Eli Zaretskii [2021-05-12 16:12:46] wrote:
> Drew might be a single person, but he tends to flood the Emacs mailing
> lists with a lot of messages carrying this addition.  Rmail's
> threading is based on comparing their Subject lines, and Rmail already
> has quite a few heuristics whose purpose is to clean up the Subject
> line to that end.  I see nothing wrong with adding one more
> heuristics; the problem hits me as well.

But this shouldn't be embedded directly into the code.
We should have instead a variable specifying those cases (so it can be
extended/adjusted depending on the cases the users face).

Gregory Heytings [2021-05-12 14:17:59] wrote:
> See https://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/114496 for a possible explanation.
> This is typically something big corporations or government agencies do; for
> another example on this mailing list, see the posts from Stephan Mueller
> (microsoft.com), which use [EXTERNAL].

I suspect that similar things happen in non-anglophone contexts where
the word used is likely different.


        Stefan