Re: Mail / Conversation Threading in Alpine / Pine?

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 at 12:37 -0000, Chris Game wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:30:18 +0000, Chris Game wrote:

How does Alpine identify a thread?

It appears to me that it uses the "References:" header and the "In-reply-to:" header.

Any way of including the replies to complete the conversation, Gmail style?

I don't know what "gmail style" means.

I find that all of the messages in a conversation, including my replies, within a folder are properly threaded. I use the S (save) command to move all of the messages into the same folder so that they can be threaded.

Sometimes I correspond with people who either

a) send replies which do not include the proper headers so that pine can thread them. This could happen if their mail client is incompetent. Or it could happen if the user creates a new message instead of using the reply function, ie. the user is incompetent.

b) Use the reply command (instead of new and typing in my e-mail address) to start a new conversation (ie, the user is incompetent).

Either of these cause mis-threaded messages.

- Rob


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