Hello Christoph,
On Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at 2:08:17 PM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote:
> mutt-1.2.5 users break threading for everyone else on a mailing list!
> They should stop doing so immediately!
Calm down! ;-) Situation is not *so* critical:
First: many readers use more "References:" than "In-Reply-To:" to
show threads, and Mutt 1.2.5 posts this field cleanly.
Second: trash loaded IRT field is not a problem of Mutt 1.2.5
itself, but of it's configuration. One can change what's in there with
the $in_reply_to variable. It's by default "%i; from %a on %{!%a, %b %d,
%Y at %I:%M:%S%p %Z}", but one can clean this by putting in muttrc:
set in_reply_to="%i"
And then Mutt 1.2.5 will post correct 2822 compliant IRT, ready to
be used efficiently by any reader, whichever algorithm it uses for
threading. Including recent Mutts 1.3.x, 1.4 and more. I had this
setting like that since the first day I used Mutt, long ago.
Strangely formated IRT with "creative" content was (and always is)
something widely spread. Just because RFC 2822 is so recent, and 822 was
liberal. So readers were only very carefully using IRT, and were relying
more on Refs or even "Subject:" to build threads.
Mutt 1.4 has wonderfull code for threading: powerfull, versatile,
fast, configurable to everyone's taste, informative (I mean the "&?"
missing and the "*" broken). But a little bit fragile: Perhaps too much
confidence in IRT's content.
Bye! Alain.
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