Hi, * Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Thursday, June 11 at 11:44 PM, quoth Heinrich Langos:
> >When exactly are "References:" headers added? Sorry to digres but I > >am curious if my solution of deleting the "In-Reply-To:" header is > >sufficient. It is. References are generated if and only if you leave the In-Reply-To header as-is during editing. When removing it and when changing it (either change the message-id, add one, replace them, etc.) mutt doesn't generate a References header as it doesn't know the parent message. When In-Reply-To contains more than one message-id, it will never generate References as the standard explicitely leaves semantics for that case out. > According to the FAQ (I didn't know this), mutt generates the > References header based on the In-Reply-To header, so deleting that > header should be sufficient. Personally, though, I think it's better > to simply get out of the habit of using "reply" as a way of starting > a new message. Before editing the message, mutt knows the original message(s) and can generate a References: header. In-Reply-To is only used as it's more user-friendly for editing. Generating References: from In-Reply-To: would mean to lookup the parent message by message-id in the mailbox first -- mutt doesn't do that. Rocco
