On Wed 10 Jul 2019 at 10:25:29 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 08:18:31AM -0000, Curt wrote: > > [...] > > > Alpine works fine. > > Most probably, yes :-)
I'm not certain that it does. I looked at a web page for Alpine http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/alpine-info/misc/headers.html (I don't know what version nor whether it's authoritative), and read: "Note that there are some headers that you can not edit, nor you should add to the list of Customized Headers. The list of headers that can not be edited within Alpine is the following: Message-Id, [sic] In-Reply-To, References, Date, […] I can understand Message-ID and Date as they're unknown when composing the message, but I sometimes add/edit the In-Reply-To when I come late to a thread and have already deleted the post I want to respond to. I just grab the Message-id [sic] from the web archive. So unless you've got some method of inserting an email with the appropriate Message-ID into a mailbox and then pointing Alpine at it, it might be tricky to send a post with the appropriate value when you not subscribed to the list. Did bw unsubscribe from the list between 2018-10-19 and 2019-03-31, which is when In-Reply-To went AWOL in posts I have still have access to. > > There are legions of snobs here, though, who, at the > > drop of just about any hat, will suggest you switch to mutt, purge > > Network Manager, eradicate Gnome, clear out the avahi-daemon, compose in > > emacs, and open all windows in FVWM (and the list goes on). Why "snobs"? Until I inherited this laptop, I never had the hardware to be able to run a DE like Gnome, so mutt/emacs/fvwm were sensible choices. Having used them now for over 20 years, I see little point in changing. I'm not bothered whether anyone switches to them, though I guess just saying here that you use them carries that implication for some people. I think *this* laptop could run a DE and VMs and so on. But there has to be some incentive to add complexity. Put them in the queue, behind learning IPv6 and other things that people say I ought to know about. Cheers, David.
