On 2019-04-29, Thomas Pircher <thp+deb...@p5r.uk> wrote: > Curt wrote: >> Maybe that lead-in violates some RFC, although you'd think what's in the >> header's in the header and what ain't ain't and ne'er the twain shall >> meet. >> >> At any rate, bw threads fine here, so it must be you (or me). > > It's you -- or rather bw's MUA, I'm afraid. :-) > His mails don't thread in neomutt neither, specifically because the > headers sent by his MUA don't include neither the Reference nor the > In-Reply-To fields.
I now understand that bw's mails do not comprise those thread-critical fields. As an Alpine user myself, I can only wonder how he manages it, and, more particularly, why he manages it. I guess my slrn news client (I read the list through an NTTP host) must work it out via the 'Subject:' line (as suggested by Tixy elsewhere), threading acceptably even in the absence of the missing fields. Whether this whole business has any relation to the custom lead-in string in his email bodies is a matter for conjecture. A bientôt. > Thomas > > -- The major, who had been a great fencer, did not believe in bravery, and spent much time while we sat in the machines correcting my grammar. He had complimented me on how I spoke Italian, and we talked together very easily. One day I had said that Italian seemed such an easy language to me that I could not take a great interest in it; everything was so easy to say. "Ah, yes," the major said. "Why, then, do you not take up the use of grammar?" - "Another Country"
