GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 98834
Displaying msg-ids and email addresses in text as links
Last modified: 2011-12-03 17:58:00 UTC
Pan should recognize strings containing '@' (plus maybe some additional rules) in both headers and message body and display them as links. Clicking it should give you an option to treat it as either e-mail addresse or msg-id. This feature would greatly improve comfort of using the newsreader in discussions where authors provide msg-id of some other usenet messages. Also useful for tracking references. In short - I'm thinking of the feature KDE newsreader Knode has.
extremely simple to do using GMime's gtrie/url-scanner code.
I just wrote a patch to do this while creating a patch to update pan to use a newer GMime patch sent to pan-devel, but it was quite large (410k) so I'm not sure if it will get mailman :-\
bug #116269 has the patch attached that fixes this as well
*** Bug 88573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***