#34782 closed New feature (wontfix)

Explicit support for In-Reply-To / References in EmailMessage

Reported by: David Gilman Owned by: nobody
Component: Core (Mail) Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

If you want email clients to thread a response you need to set the In-Reply-To and References headers in the email with the Message-ID of the email you're responding to.

Right now, with the EmailMessage class, you can set both directly via the headers= kwarg. However, maybe it is worth an explicit kwarg, like it already has with cc, bcc and reply-to, to save the user the hassle of looking up the relevant RFCs and figuring out what needs to be done. It is a little bit of a weird case in that you have to set two different headers to what is usually the same value.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Mariusz Felisiak, 15 months ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Thanks for the ticket, however, headers is the right place to add in-reply-to, we don't want to add extra kwargs for all available headers. This API is generally frozen.

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