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

[Shaun McDonald]

On 5 Jan 2008, at 20:32, Robin Paulson wrote:

> On 06/01/2008, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> 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.
>
> while you're at it, could you remove the [OSM-talk] or [OSM-dev] that
> is prepended to the subject of each e-mail? we live in an age of
> e-mail clients with powerful filtering capabilities, and the need for
> this header just isn't there, it adds nothing but noise

I'm sure this is a setting in mailman instead.

Personally I like it there as I use a smart mailbox of today's mail,  
yesterday's mail, and this week's mail to deal with most of my mail as  
it is a lot faster than trudging through lots of folders.

Shaun

>
>
> plus, i'm sure it's against some e-mail standard to mangle the subject
> as set by the sender
>
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