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Well, getting enough uptake is difficult because email standards are hard to change. We still don't have support for hyperlinking emails, though I tried to fix
by SilasX 3y ago
Well, getting enough uptake is difficult because email standards are hard to change. We still don't have support for hyperlinking emails, though I tried to fix that recently:
https://pastebin.com/kHQs50xm https://pastebin.com/kHQs50xm
- jcranmer 3y agoThe mid: scheme (see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2111 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2111) can theoretically do that and has been around since, uh, 1997.
- SilasX 3y agoYep, and even with it being possible, no one's bothered to make it usable for email hyperlinks, hence the problem. The (attempt at an) RFC I linked avoids depending on the other side tracking the MessageID, assuming only things they would want to store.
- jcranmer 3y agoMessage-ID is something already stored in your email database, because it's necessary for a lot of stuff (in particular, threading conversations correctly). I'd be shocked if any email store didn't support querying by message-ID. Querying by body is a lot harder, since you need full-text support in the body. It's not the difficulty of implementing mid that's blocking support in clients.