Re: bad mailer Subject meddling (was: links in Help buffer aren't always correct)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:39:25 -0800
> 
> Sorry, I don't know how to fix that in Outlook. I use Outlook 2000, for
> various reasons related to work. It's old, but still a very common (the most
> common?) email client in use. I don't defend it, but it's the one I use.

Perhaps you could try Emacs, if only for posting to Emacs-related
forums.

> If it produces brain-dead subject lines, but it is a very common mailer,
> maybe Rmail's C-c C-n could somehow deal with it by adding extra
> intelligence to handle the retarded output ;-)?

I thought about that, but eventually rejected the idea: it could cause
too many errors due to wrong matches.

> I don't even know what C-c C-n does

It finds the next message with the same subject.

> On a related subject: Unlike the posts to emacs-devel, bug reports get the
> original sender's email address (e.g. "address@hidden") prepended
> to the subject line

That's how Emacs formats forwarded messages.