[imp] Generating From headers with a catch-all email address?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Eric Jon Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:
>
>> Quoting Lloyd Zusman <ljz at asfast.com>:
>>
>>> But this proposed "prereply" hook would be equally generic as
>>> "postlogin", "postsent", "signature", and most of the other hooks that
>>> already exist. People can write whatever code they want for these
>>> existing hooks. Why would mine be any different?
>>
>> I see the argument for including the code to support the hook, but not
>> provide his actual hook code...  Then people who do want a pre-reply hook
>> would be able to write one (say, maybe it checks for replies to known
>> phishing addresses, or something else potentially useful).
>
> We always provide examples, for a good reason. If we are going to add
> that hook, we should find a useful example. If we don't find one, then
> the hook doesn't make sense to me.

I agree with Jan.  Just like we don't provide a preference setting for  
*every* setting that may exist, we aren't going to provide a hook at  
all possible entry points in the code.  The code is open source - for  
the obtuse cases the code can be added if needed.

michael

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