[OSM-dev] RFC 3834 compliance of auto-generated OSM mails?

[Armijn Hemel]

On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 21:06 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately the OSM confirmation mail is not easily recognizable
> as an
> > auto-generated mail. RFC 3834, section 5 defines a header, named
> > 'Auto-Submitted' where you can tag if a mail is auto-generated or
> not.
> > Adding it to a mailscript is rather trivial and it would make a lot
> of
> > sysadmins (incl. me) a bit happier :-)
> > 
> > http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3834.txt
> 
> This probably just hasn't been done because nobody thought of it. The
> source code for the web page is available at
> svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/rails_port (yes, it's RoR). If you'd
> submit a patch for the relevant parts (and while you're at it, fix
> anything else E-Mail related that seems odd to you), I'm sure this
> would be most welcome.

After reading some RoR docs I made the following patch. I hope it is
correct (I'm not sure on the format of the 'headers' thing). Please
read, correct, apply, or delete silently :-P

thanks,

armijn

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