84876 (MTA Config patch) Funness

David Miller justdave at syndicomm.com
Tue Jun 24 22:07:58 UTC 2003


On 6/24/2003 11:01 PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote:

> J. Paul Reed wrote:
>
>> I'm in the middle of templatizing all the email messages; each message has
>> a body template and a header template.
>
> Any particular reason, given that the two will always be combined in the
> same way? ("It stops people messing things up when editing templates"
> could well be a valid reason :-)

If we have different mail formats and let people pick between them, the
headers would be the same (except for Content-Type, which can be rewritten
easily anyway) but the body might be different.

For example, the plain ASCII mail like goes out currently...
or for our numerous ircbots and other stuff that get email, maybe an XML
format.  For those people who have mail programs that can view HTML mail
decently, an HTML format with the pretty bug activity chart on it.  etc.

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