Re: Compatibility with Outlook threading

2011-06-01 Thread Richard
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:05:01PM -0400, Bob Bell wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:56:13PM +0200, Richard wrote: > >If your solution can be done with my_hdr it might be best to > >simply document how to do it? > > I'm not aware of how to do this with my_hdr. The Thread-Index header on > the r

Re: Compatibility with Outlook threading

2011-05-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-05-28 14:22:10 -0400, Bob Bell wrote: > That might make sense in your environment, but in a corporate > Microsoft-centric environment (an unfortunate reality), discarding > Thread-Index would be akin disabling the ability to have Outlook thread > emails. I've already gotten emails from my

Re: Compatibility with Outlook threading

2011-05-28 Thread Bob Bell
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:56:13PM +0200, Richard wrote: If your solution can be done with my_hdr it might be best to simply document how to do it? I'm not aware of how to do this with my_hdr. The Thread-Index header on the reply must be calculated from the Thread-Index header of the parent me

Re: Compatibility with Outlook threading

2011-05-28 Thread Richard
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 02:22:10PM -0400, Bob Bell wrote: I am not against mutt having a capability but open source related mailing lists should deliberately filter this and much more nonsense in the headers. I am pretty familiar with making horrible hacks to make particular features working for

Re: Compatibility with Outlook threading

2011-05-28 Thread Bob Bell
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:38:47PM +0200, Richard wrote: > I think mailing list admins should be encouraged to filter binary headers > with undocumented content.. be it the mystery yahoo header or Thread-Index. That might make sense in your environment, but in a corporate Microsoft-centric enviro

Re: Compatibility with Outlook threading

2011-05-28 Thread Bob Bell
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 05:53:23PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > Can't we just teach Microsoft that they can look at In-Reply-To: and > References: headers? That would be wonderful. History says that's unlikely... > What does Thunderbird do? Does it break Outlook 2010 threading, too? I don't

Re: Compatibility with Outlook threading

2011-05-28 Thread Richard
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 05:01:20PM -0400, Bob Bell wrote: > I can pull this off with some muttrc-hackery, though it's not exacly > clean. I'd be willing to refresh my knowledge of the mutt sources and > craft a patch to do this automatically (either 100% of the time based on > the presence of Thr

Re: Compatibility with Outlook threading

2011-05-28 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 27.05.2011 23:01, schrieb Bob Bell: > > I can pull this off with some muttrc-hackery, though it's not exacly > clean. I'd be willing to refresh my knowledge of the mutt sources and > craft a patch to do this automatically (either 100% of the time based on > the presence of Thread-Index, or if

Re: Compatibility with Outlook threading

2011-05-28 Thread Moritz Barsnick
Hi, I understand your situation and your motivation quite well. I work in an Outlook-centric corporation too. > I've determined that Outlook disregards References and In-Reply-To > headers, and instead relies on Thread-Topic and Thread-Index headers. > Mutt doesn't preserve either of these headers

Compatibility with Outlook threading

2011-05-27 Thread Bob Bell
I'm now using mutt, at least some of the time, for my work email. This involves accessing an Exchange server via IMAP. I'm the exception; most people are using Outlook. What I'm finding is that although all messages are threaded fine in mutt, the replies that I send are not threaded in other pe