Mikko,
Man! Your the King! That was it.
Thanks,
kelly
Quoting Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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
> --
> // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/
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