Matt [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I'm a mutt newbie and not too familiar with using threads. What do the
> symbols in the thread pointers mean? In particular, the branched arrows.
> Are the branches using "In-reply-to" or the Subject line or....?
They use In-reply-to and Referecnes headers.
> Also, when a thread arrow contains an asterisk what does that mean?
It means there's neither of the above headers to cause regular threading,
but the Subject matches another message, so a thread is assumed. This is
done to deal with broken MUAs that break or don't write the above headers,
and can be turned off using the strict_threads config variable.
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