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girzel / ebdb

An EIEIO port of BBDB, Emacs' contact-management package
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A type for mailing list records exists, but cannot be created #92

Open swflint opened 4 years ago

swflint commented 4 years ago

The concept of having records for mailing lists is really interesting. What's the overall goal? And what can be done to help implement the record type?

girzel commented 4 years ago

I think I never implemented anything because I couldn't figure out what the overall goal was! At the time I was considering what other kind of record types might be useful (location, group, etc), and mailing list seemed likely, but then I couldn't really think of what other functionality I could put in there. I still like the idea of having a mailing list record type separate from people and organizations, but since I didn't know what else I could do with it, I didn't want to just make something that ended up having to be changed later on.

Maybe most of the functionality would actually come with MUA interaction?

Anyway, let me know if you have any ideas!

swflint commented 4 years ago

Slightly different fontification, maybe a pre-send hook to, for instance, set reply-to (in the event that it's a mailing list, or do other things for other records). I also think it would be useful for sorting/filtering. Maybe even keep mailing list type (Mailman, MajorDomo, Listserv, Google, etc) to be able to handle sending commands?

swflint commented 4 years ago

See #93.