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

[Tom Hughes]

In message <1199567149.2735.25.camel at kroepoek.local>
          Armijn Hemel <armijn at uulug.nl> wrote:

> 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

Can you put a ticket in trac and attach the patch please, so
that I don't forget about it... I'll review it when I have a
channce.

Tom

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