From: Samuel GROOT <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 22:10:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to
Message-ID: <6e44c8dd-56cd-37c2-81bb-cfaa001bb549@grenoble-inp.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqmvng8rnt.fsf@anie.imag.fr>



On 05/23/2016 10:07 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
>
>> Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> wrote:
>>
>>> +	#Message body
>>> +	while (<$fh>) {
>>> +		#for files containing crlf line endings
>>> +		$_=~ s/\r//g;
>>> +		my $space="";
>>> +		if (/^[^>]/) {
>>> +			$space = " ";
>>> +		}
>>> +		$message_quoted .=  ">".$space.$_;
>>
>> Is this really necessary to switch between "> " and ">" prefix?
>> AFAIK, MUAs prefix unconditionally with "> ".
>
> I had the same question, but at least my mailer (Gnus) has the same
> special-case it seems.


Thunderbird behaves the same way, so we decided to mimic that behavior.

It is specified neither in RFC 2822 [1] nor in RFC 5322 [2].

When we write an email, we write it with a maximum width of 72 columns. 
If we insert "> " with each reply, the 80-columns limit will be reached 
with only 4 replies.

So IMHO we should trim the extra space to allow up to 7 replies before 
reaching the 80-columns limit.


[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt
[2] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt