From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
Subject: Re: [patch] Adding In-Reply-To: support to mail(1)
To: Tim Chase <openbsd@tim.thechases.com>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:46:45 +0100

Tim Chase wrote in
 <ZbsDtBZVLZQAu3LS@thechases.com>:
 |I noticed that mail(1) doesn't seem to support adding In-Reply-To:
 |headers which ended up messing up some mail workflows here.  Would
 ...
 |I'm not quite certain whether those
 |
 |  head.h_inreplyto = hfield("message-id", mp);
 |
 |lines should be
 |
 |  head.h_inreplyto = skin(hfield("message-id", mp));

It should definetely be skin()ned.

 |The FreeBSD mail(1) source uses the skin() version, but the comment
 |on skin() in the OpenBSD source-tree talks about addresses, not
 |message-IDs.

The BSD Mail codebase is older than the standard.
It is a total looser regarding anything such, and works only by
accident.  And not truly exaggerating.

But when writing out the header you need to place this "msg-id" in
standard terms in <angle-brackets>.
You should also manage References:.

  ...

--steffen
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