Simon Ruderich wrote (Tue 2016-Nov-08 02:08:55 +0100): > To answer multiple mails at once tag them (t for a single mail) > and then use ;r to reply to all of them (this will quote all of > them in $EDITOR).
That's what I've been doing for many years, too, and it seems to work fine, apart from one small issue: postponing and later recalling the email will lead to Mutt not marking the replied-to messages with the "r" flag. > However in the thread view the resulting mail will only appear as > reply to one of those mails (not sure if this is a limitation of > mutt or the in-reply-to header)... AFAIU, placing multiple entries (message ids) in the In-Reply-To header is perfectly valid; the difficult part is left for the user interface: Mutt has a one-dimensional index view using "threading by grouping and sorting within the group", and this will not easily allow showing a tree-like structure containing nodes that have more than one parent. It might be possible to create a well usable two-dimensional index view in a MUA in a (2D-)graphical environment when a "multi-parent" thread can be shown as a planar graph; but one can easily think of relations between emails that will not result in an easy-to-read drawing even in a graphical environment... Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · <m...@cheers.de> · https://cheers.de
