Subject: Re: bug#72442: 31.0.50; Gnus or message.el doesn't handle international message reply subject prefixes and insults users

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:15:03 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:37:15 +0200
> 
> The current setting for rmail is more complete than the suggestion in
> the Gnus manual, except itʼs missing:
> 
> - "RÉ"
> - an optional "." after "Antw"
> - an optional space between the "RE" string and the ":"
> - "FW"/"FWD"
> 
> The first 3 seem obvious. Adding the last might annoy people :-)
> 
> I can add those to `rmail-re-abbrevs', but perhaps itʼs better to have a
> new defcustom that both rmail and message would use? Something like
> 'mail-re-regexps' in "mail-utils.el" perhaps? Plus some appropriate
> editing of the manual.

Sounds like a good plan to me, thanks.

For backward compatibility, let's leave rmail-re-abbrevs in place, and
just initialize it from that new defcustom.