Kelly Scroggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 16 May 2000:
> I like to sort my messages by thread.
> But some messages don't appear in the
> thread. They are instead listed by
> themselves in the list.
>
> Can anyone know why?
Sure, but it's impossible to say for sure what your problem is, there's
not enough details. I can only give a guess.
Let me first explain how Mutt does threading. The first and primary
method is by the "References" headers in the emails. Many email
programs, including Mutt, will add this header when the user writes a
reply. With the References header, Mutt can look up what other messages
belong to the same thread, and thread that message together with them.
However, not all email programs create the References header with
replies. Because of this, Mutt has a secondary threading method:
matching messages by subject. If the subject is the same (or close
enough to being same) as another message in the mail folder, Mutt will
group these two messages into the same thread. The ordering depends
on the message dates, as shown in the Date header (but Mutt does know
about different timezones and knows how to compare them properly).
This latter is known as subject-based threading, and it can be turned
off by turning on (setting) the Mutt variable $strict_threads.
So, here's my guess: You have $strict_threads turned on (set), and
the message(s) that didn't get saved to the thread didn't have a
References header.
Even if that guess is off, the reason why Mutt didn't put the message
in the same thread is that both of the methods I explained above
failed for that message.
I hope this helps. If you need more help, then please tell us more
about your situation and details about the messages that didn't get
threaded right.
Regards,
Mikko
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