[imp] Re: viewing X-Headers in IMP

[Vijay Mahrra]

Jan Schneider wrote:

> This preference doesn't belong to the identities.

What insightful, useful and positive feedback.  

I submitted this patch after following up your fellow Horde team
member Michael Slusarz's original suggestion (some weeks ago) to which
nobody else on this list replied to.

Regards,

Vijay

Michael M Slusarz wrote:

> Quoting Vijay Mahrra <vijay.mahrra at es.easynet.net>:
> 
>> Recently our organisation implemented a SPAM-checking feature which

>> creates a
>> specific "X-Header" with a spam score in the email message headers.

>> To view
>> it, the only options avaiable in IMP (CVS) are:
>>
>> 1) Clicking the link "Headers: Show All Headers".
>> 2) Following the "Message Source" link when the message is
displayed.
>>
>> We want to display our specific X-Header and so are prepared to
modify 
>> IMP
>> once again (I wrote the 'hordeauth' patch) to make it possible.
What 
>> is the
>> best way to go about this?
>>
>> I am thinking, we could have:
>>
>> a) Modify (1) above so that it displays "Headers: Show All Headers
| Show
>> X-Headers"
>> b) In "Options/Message Viewing" have a tickbox "View X-Headers"
>> c) In "Options/Personal Information" have a text area similar to
"Your 
>> alias
>> addresses, Addresses to explicitly tie to this identity" etc
entitled 
>> "Your
>> Headers" or something similar which lets you type in each
"X-Header" 
>> you want
>> to be able to view for each message.
> 
> 
>  From a development/Horde/IMP implementation standpoint, definitely
not 
> a) or b).
>  However c) might be an option worth pursuing - allowing a user to 
> identify the
> Headers that they would like to view by default.  So that would
appear 
> to be
> the best way to tackle this problem (patches would be great!)
> 
> Just an implementation note - this should not specifically be tied
to
> 'X-Headers'.  Rather, the user should be allowed to identify *any*
header
> outside of the "standard" ones displayed (i.e. 'Organization', 
> 'Return-Path')
> rather than simply limiting to X-Headers.
> 
> michael
> 
> ______________________________________________
> Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
> The University of Colorado at Boulder
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