JimO wrote: > I don't find a specification for Mutt's threading algorithm in the > docs I have, manual and faq. Maybe it's a moving target, but I bet > it's pretty stable at this point. As I understand it, Mutt uses > In-Reply-To as its highest precedence, which makes sense, but I'm left > with the following: > > What's the form of an In-Reply-To header? What's the form of a > References header? > > I often need to hack these headers to organize threads where > correspondents are careless about replying, but their content is > important enough to keep their mail; I'd like to know what spec I > should be working to as I hack. Obviously, I can get a good idea of > these headers by simply looking at some of them, but a real spec is > nicer.
is something wrong with the RFCs? i'd guess that rfc2822 would be a good place to start: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >
