| Re: Mailing list integration question [message #168815 is a reply to message #168785] |
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cpreston
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Registered: July 2012
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Frank,
I know you have a real job.  So unless I hear a "yo!" real soon, I'm going to get my developers started on this. Here's what I've come up with for a plan. It would be great if you could take a look and see what you think.
I plan to edit the core FUDforum code so that it includes "In-Reply-To" and "References" headers when it sends a reply to an email.
As I understand it, to do this, I need to do the following:
1. Get the Message-ID of each message
- Grab the Message-ID from any incoming emails
- Create and/or get the Message-ID for any outgoing emails
2. Store the Message-ID of each post, associated with the post.
3. Insert "In-Reply-To" and "References" headers into any outgoing emails:
(In the following, "Previous-Message-ID" is the Message-ID of message currently being replied TO, AKA the Message-ID of the previous post in the thread -- not the message-ID of the outbound message.)
<code>In-Reply-To: <Previous-Message-ID>
References: <First-message-ID-of-current-thread> <next-message-ID-in-thread> <next-message-ID-in-thread> <etc> <Previous-message-ID></code>
(If there is only one previous message in thread, there is only one message-ID in the References line. If there are more than ten previous message IDs, you are supposed to drop the second one until you have ten or fewer. Always start with the first-message-ID and end with the Previous-Message-ID.)
I will submit diffs from the core code. It seems like adding a field to the posts table would be the most likely place to store the Message-ID for each post, but that does mean adding a field to a core table. What do you think about that, Frank?
Just in case I read it wrong, the details of how to do In-reply-to and References headers is based on the info in this web page:
http://cr.yp.to/immhf/thread.html
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