Re: RE: ASK confirmation

Hi Marc et al,

The word-wrapping is not done by Pyton but rather by some MUAs. I plan on
shortening the "confirmation code" for future versions. This will allow more
"customized" subjects in the confirmation message.

Regards,
Paga

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:00:53PM +0300, Marc Herbert wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > # I have a request to modify the Subject line of the confirmation email
> > sent out by ask.
> >
> > # Is there any way to have ASK include RE: original Subject + the conf#%
> > # on the subject line of the confirmation email so the recipient can
> > recognize it as a
> > # response to their email and not perceive it as and advertisement based on
> > the subject.
> >
> > # I have looked at the askmessage.py that generated the subject but can not
> > figure out how
> > # to include the original subject.
> >
> > # Help would be appreciated.
> > # Thanks
> >
> > I figured it out. If any one else want's to know how to do it.
> 
> You could have found this solution in the sourceforge tracker:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=588023&group_id=42266&atid=432548
> 
> 
> > Edit the  askmessage.py  replace line 459
> > "Please confirm (conf#%s)" % self.ascii_digest,
> > With
> > "RE: %s   -  Please confirm (conf#%s)" % (self.get_subject(), self.ascii_digest),
> 
> DON'T DO THAT !
> 
> I discovered the hard way that ASK (or the python mail library,
> dunno...) wraps long subject lines at some unknown point.  If the
> subject line is long, the confirmation code may end up splitted on two
> different lines and rendered ineffective. The workaround is to keep
> the confirmation code at the _beginning_ of the line (and the original
> subject at the end).
> 
> See above URL for more details.
> 
> 
> 
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