also sprach Philipp Weis <pw...@pweis.com> [2010.04.06.1943 +0200]: > * Replacing your script with the new minimal wrapper will not change > this script behaves at all. Mutt does all the mailto URL parsing > that your script used to do -- no functionality will be lost.
But didn't you say that mutt mailto cannot handle arbitrary headers, like my script can? > * Probably with the next upstream of mutt, mailto URLs will be handled > differently by mutt itself. Only subject and body attributes will be > honord by default, everything else needs to be specifically allowed > by the user in their mutt configuration. This should be mentioned in > the changelog and the mutt documentation, but I don't think it > really needs to be advertised beyond that. Yes, agreed. > The combination of these two points does break the current > behavior in that exotic header attributes will no longer work out > of the box. What do you think would be the right way to alert the > user about this, and is this even necessary? At the very least, there should be a NEWS entry. I also think that it makes sense to have the wrapper output a warning (e.g. cat the NEWS stanza) to stdout, nudging the user to stop using the wrapper. That'll be a self-fulfilling profecy. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "the only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." -- oscar wilde
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