Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAED54196F0 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:56:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.89 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.89 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1, BAYES_00=-1.9, T_MIME_NO_TEXT=0.01] autolearn=ham Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wQUXIzxT1kOX; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yoom.home.cworth.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F573431FC1; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by yoom.home.cworth.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E7C79254089; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:55:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Carl Worth To: Dirk Hohndel , Sebastian Spaeth , Notmuch list Subject: Re: RFC: User-Agent header In-Reply-To: References: <87iq821hba.fsf@SSpaeth.de> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:55:17 -0700 Message-ID: <874ojkf23u.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:56:25 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:12:47 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wr= ote: > On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:26:01 +0200, "Sebastian Spaeth" wrote: > > > No patch yet, just asking if this is a good idea or not. Yes. A fine idea. > I think it's a very good idea. But it should be something that includes > the other components of how you send email... >=20 > Like >=20 > User-Aget: Emacs 23 Message-mode / notmuch-0.1.1 A quick grep through some of my recent mails does show precedent for this kind of thing: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Unsurprisingly, these suer-agent strings can become arbitrarily unwieldy: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.9) Geck= o/20100317 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0.4 Or extremely simple: User-Agent: Sup/0.11 I don't see the advantage of duplicating the name and version in the parenthesized comment, but here's an idea that looks useful: User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) So I propose something like: User-Agent: Notmuch/0.2 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.1.1 (gnu/linux) If anybody wants to start assembling a patch to generate that, that would be great. =2DCarl --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLv+iV6JDdNq8qSWgRAvaTAJ93fzwMh+3PvOk39aFjkG9NonH0cwCdFeW+ ZpFZauniFuYt9jpAO+hEplE= =rMpL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--