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[Hatuka*nezumi - IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi Steve and all,

On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:32:53 +0000
Steve Shipway <address@concealed> wrote:

> In the changes list for 6.1.20 :
> 
> * Mail merge: Parameters taken from mail headers may be overwritten by ones 
> of each subpart. Initialize $data→{'headers'} only once at calling 
> Bulk::merge_msg(),
> 
> I think this is not a good way to go.  The specific case I'm thinking of is 
> the 'Content-Type' headers, which should change on each sub-part -- I would 
> want the stash to hold the current section (eg, text/plain) rather than the 
> main headers (eg multipart/mixed) so that different actions could be taken 
> in mailmerge if it is merging plain text or HTML.  I have some complex TT2 
> code that inserts IMG tags, but in a multipart/mixed situation it should 
> only do this in the HTML part, not in the plain part, and so the 
> content-type header is checked.
> 
> The subparts would only hold MIME-related headers in any case.

I could't consider of your use case.

I thought that author of the message can include anything they like
anyway.

> One possible solution would be for {'headers'} to hold the main mail 
> headers, and {'mime-headers'} to hold the MIME-related headers for this 
> sub-part, reevaluated each time?
> 
> Thoughts?

That looks better.  We might as well set {'headers'} for entire
message and {'part'}->{'headers'} by each part.


Regards,

--- Soji

> Steve
> 
> 
> Steve Shipway
> University of Auckland ITS
> UNIX Systems Design Lead
> address@concealed<mailto:address@concealed>
> Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487
> 


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  --- nezumi