[PATCH v2 1/3] Add 'compose' command

[Dmitry Kurochkin]

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Dmitry Kurochkin
> <dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Felipe.
>>
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Running "notmuch compose" more than once within a second would result in
>>>> identical message ids for the messages, which is not a good idea. That's
>>>> not likely in interactive use, but the notmuch cli is highly scriptable,
>>>> so someone is bound to hit this.
>>>>
>>>> Some paranoid might also be worried about "leaking" the time you run
>>>> "notmuch compose"... which may be different from the actual time you
>>>> send the message.
>>>
>>> It's still better than the current situation; nothing. In any case,
>>> people that have not needed this would not be affected; their UI would
>>> override the Message-ID.
>>>
>>
>> I disagree.  If notmuch CLI generates a Message-ID, it must be a good
>> one.  Otherwise we make users falsely believe that they do have a proper
>> Message-ID while in fact they do not.  And that would bite them sooner
>> or later.
>
> And then they'll report it, and we would fix it.
>
> Anyway, everything comes from a patch, so, do you have a patch,
> pseudo-code, or even a suggestion?
>

A patch needs some positive reviews to be accepted.  Replying to
comments with "make a better patch" may not be the best strategy for
getting your patches accepted.

I do not have a patch.  As for a suggestion, I would start with some
googling.  If you did that, you would probably find the gmime function
kindly pointed out by Jani.

Regards,
  Dmitry

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> Felipe Contreras