[OFB Cafe] Threading

Kris Deugau kdeugau at deepnet.cx
Wed Jul 23 21:18:29 CDT 2008


Derek Broughton wrote:
> On July 23, 2008 15:30:49 Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> Now, when I check: http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html it tells me that
>> RFC2822 says In-Reply-to may contain a list of message "IDs of the messages
>> to which this one is a direct reply".  Only one of those IDs _is_ the
>> direct parent of the message you send, which means Windows Mail is still
>> broken (or to use your terminology "the de facto standard").
> 
> And so it was pretty simple to filter on messages from Chris and delete the 
> In-Reply-To header on all incoming messages.  Now everything threads 
> properly.

Hmm.  Threads fine here with Seamonkey (and therefore presumably 
Thunderbird, and any of the relabeled derivatives and forks of same).

KMail must not be following the sendmail credo of "Be liberal in what 
you accept, strict in what you send".  <g>

-kgd




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