My .muttrc (which I use for everything except mailing lists, currently):
my_hdr Reply-By: `date --date="-3 days"`
my_hdr X-Message-Flag: Cranky? Try Free Software instead!
my_hdr X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux
my_hdr X-Uptime: `uptime`
my_hdr X-Relgion: Optimus Prime
I had forgotten what the Reply-By and X-Message-Flag were for, thanks
for reminding me. :)
2006/3/12, Ian Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>:
> At the TBAD meeting, we had a brief discussion about email that somehow
> devolved into "mean email tricks".
>
> It started with someone commenting on how I looked like my email
> picture. Every message I send from Thunderbird on my Powerbook has a
> small photo of me embedded in the sent message headers using the
> MessageFace extension:
>
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&id=393
>
> Matt Moen mentioned a header line that irritates Outlook users with a
> popup box. Looking through google for the X-Message-Flag that Matt uses,
> I found the following:
>
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MicrosoftOutlookExpress
>
> which suggests the following three headers:
>
> X-Message-Flag: OUTLOOK ERROR: Use a real Mail client, like Mozilla
> Thunderbird.
> Reply-By: Wed, 1 Apr 2000 12:00:00 -0500
> X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor?=black
>
> "The WebTV Stationery header hides the message in WebTV clients. The
> Reply-By header sets an angry "OVERDUE MESSAGE!!" flag. The Message Flag
> header puts another flag by your message, and also displays your custom
> notice."
>
> Googling a bit more, MozillaZine has a nice HowTo for setting headers
> automagically with Thunderbird 1.5:
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Custom_headers
>
> So, for "id1", I can add the above customer header lines simply by
> adding the following lines to my user.js in my user profile:
>
> user_pref("mail.identity.id1.headers", "messageflag, replyby,
> webtvstationery");
> user_pref("mail.identity.id1.header.messageflag", "X-Message-Flag:
> OUTLOOK ERROR: Use a real Mail client, like Mozilla Thunderbird.");
> user_pref("mail.identity.id1.header.replyby", "Reply-By: Wed, 1 Apr
> 2000 12:00:00 -0500");
> user_pref("mail.identity.id1.header.webtvstationery",
> "X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor?=black")
>
> Fun stuff. Useless, but fun.
>
> On the server side, I use a bit of .procmailrc Tagging to color code
> messages in Thunderbird:
>
> # Color tagging for Thunderbird:
> # 1-Important
> # 2-Work
> # 3-Personal
> # 4-ToDo
> # 5-Later
>
> :0 fhw
> * ^From:.*jholloway@nks.net
> | formail -I "X-Keywords: \$Label1"
>
> :0 fhw
> * ^From:.*@nks.net
> | formail -I "X-Keywords: \$Label2"
>
> :0 fhw
> * ^.*@blenke.com
> | formail -I "X-Keywords: \$Label3"
>
> This actually ends up being quite useful.
>
> Anyone else have some useful or otherwise interesting headers they use?
>
> --
> - Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>
>
>
>
>
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