[p2pu-dev] Reply by email to notifications, formatting

[Dirk Uys]

Hi Stian

This sounds like a good idea! One thing I'm wondering about is the use of
course name/short name in brackets in the subject line. Eg.
[chin-shopkeep]. This makes lots of sense to me as a technical person using
a lot of mailing lists, but does it make sense to other non tech people as
well?

The from address can easily be done, currently we set the from address to
be "P2PU <reply+asdfjlwerlwe at reply.p2pu.org>", but substituting P2PU for
the sender's name wouldn't be a problem. I created a issue on github for
this (https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/issues/173)

Another thing that I am wondering about is what headers we need to include?
Github sets List-Id, List-Archive, List-Unsubscribe and some others. We
should also set Message-ID. (https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/issues/172)

Please keep the suggestions coming on how we can improve the reply by email!

Cheers
d

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler
<jessy at jessykate.com>wrote:

> wow, YES, totally. +100 for this formatting. (though keeping all the fun
> footer messages :))
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I will be very happy to buy whoever implemented this a beer the next time
>> we meet! This is really awesome - I've been begging for this kind of
>> functionality for ever, and it's a bit overwhelming to actually see it
>> implemented, and working perfectly! :))
>>
>> I wonder if we can have a look at the formatting of the messages though,
>> currently there seems to be a lot of "cruft"... here's an example message:
>>
>> ---
>> Chinese for shopkeepers was updated.
>>
>>
>> Stian Haklev posted a new comment at Experimenting.
>>
>> Comment:
>> This actually works
>>
>> See comment at: https://p2pu.org/comments/19235/
>>
>> You can reply to this comment by email! Just type your reply at the top.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> The P2PU Team
>>
>> Manage how often you get these delightful messages at:
>> http://p2pu.org/profile/edit/settings/
>> ---
>>
>> The actual comment is just one line long, and it is buried under all the
>> other "chrome" (especially if you get a lot of update messages, where 90%
>> of the contents is the same). Looking at GitHub, for example, they use the
>> username as sender, without faking the sending email (something like from:
>> Stian Haklev <reply+34093409 at p2pu.org>).
>>
>> We also talked a few times about assigning, or letting the user assign,
>> short codes to courses. That way the name of the course could be embedded
>> in the subject line, and the actual subject of the message (or of the
>> task). So instead of seeing
>>
>> ---
>> P2PU        Stian Haklev posted a new comment in Chinese for Shop
>> Keepers....
>> ---
>> in the inbox overview, we could see
>> ---
>> Stian Haklev      [chin-shopkeep] What are the most important characters
>> for advertising?
>> ---
>>
>> and the e-mail could be compressed to something like this:
>>
>> ---
>> from: Stian Haklev <reply-340924093 at p2pu.org>
>> subj: [chin-shopkeep] What are the most important characters for
>> advertising?
>>
>> I was reading about different characters used in monetary transactions
>> yesterday, and I wondered whether 快 or 块 was actually the correct
>> signifier? The literature differs.
>>
>> Stian
>>
>> --
>> This message was posted in the Chinese for Shopkeepers Course <http://f/> on
>> P2PU. View thread <http://f/>, or respond to this message directly.
>> ---
>>
>> Just a suggestion, but I'd love to see some tinkering with this format.
>>
>> Stian
>>
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