Shorten subject line of forum emails

[François Marier]

Forum emails have very long subject lines which in some cases prevent users from being able to see what threads each email is in (see attached screenshot from a real Mahara.org forum).

I propose this:

- remove the group name and the forum name from the subject line
- create a new X-Mahara-Group header for the group name
- create a new X-Mahara-Forum header for the forum name
- only include the thread topic in the subject line of emails

This would make the subject line useful again and it would still allow people to use filters to move emails to the right folder (these filters would be based on the new headers instead of the subject line).

[Hugh Davenport (hugh-davenport)]

I would agree with this

On 28/10/11 16:21, François Marier wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Forum emails have very long subject lines which in some cases prevent
> users from being able to see what threads each email is in (see attached
> screenshot from a real Mahara.org forum).
>
> I propose this:
>
> - remove the group name and the forum name from the subject line
> - create a new X-Mahara-Group header for the group name
> - create a new X-Mahara-Forum header for the forum name
> - only include the thread topic in the subject line of emails
>
> This would make the subject line useful again and it would still allow
> people to use filters to move emails to the right folder (these filters
> would be based on the new headers instead of the subject line).
>
> ** Affects: mahara
> Importance: Medium
> Status: Confirmed
>
>
> ** Tags: forum
>

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[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

I agree. Adding these extra headers is something that I didn't know about but is certainly helpful for filtering stuff out in emails. That will be much better than having it in the subject line.

[Dan Poltawski (dan-poltawski)]

I agree

[François Marier (fmarier)]

https://reviews.mahara.org/#change,845

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/845
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/0498da87b22a375a04a9d3d9d462174c4aca6d8c
Submitter: Francois Marier (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 0498da87b22a375a04a9d3d9d462174c4aca6d8c
Author: Melissa Draper <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Nov 9 16:59:43 2011 +1300

    Add X-Mahara- headers to forum emails (Bug #882891)

    Forum email subjects are unwieldy so move forum name and group name to
    custom headers so users can filter as well as have a more concise
    subject line. Values in headers trimmed to 100 char based on information
    at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2721605/maximum-size-of-email-x-headers

    Change-Id: Iad9c7c3101ff81f19f3beafbe1811f28f3d3faa5
    Signed-off-by: Melissa Draper <email address hidden>