From: Crystal Kolipe Subject: Re: mail(1) set Date and User-Agent [was: Re: Back to rfc2045] To: Walter Alejandro Iglesias Cc: Omar Polo , tech@openbsd.org Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 17:03:26 -0300 On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 09:47:32PM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 08:00:57PM +0200, Omar Polo wrote: > > On 2024/08/01 10:41:40 +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > > > I fixed some mistakes and simplified a bit the code: > > > > > > https://en.roquesor.com/Downloads/mail_patches.tar.gz > > > > > > I understand why my proposal doesn't attract too much attention, I can > > > count only one person here using mail(1) as a MUA. Anyway, I'd like to > > > know if I'm doing something wrong. > > > > > > At least I'd appreciate some guidance about the general procedure. > > > Regarding the size, for example, I understand conceptually the > > > convenience of splitting and committing a diff in small chunks to gain > > > control and avoid introducing regressions, but isn't it necessary to > > > test the full functional patches first, to evaluate what they do? > > > > No, it is not. For example, Date and User-agent are completely > > orthogonal to MIME support or UTF8. > > Haven't I posted separates diffs, one including Date and User-agent and > another with the MIME headers?!!! > > > So, while I'm happy to see this > > interest in improving mail(1), > > OK. So according to you, mine is just interest. My work and my time > doesn't count at all. What!? There seems to be a big mis-understanding here. Omar has given you a decent constructive review of your proposed patches and yet you seem unhappy with that for some reason.