Hi Raul, Now I’ve worked out how to reply I find that Ian has solved the problem so I want need to reply further and will probably sink back into J obscurity as a perpetual lurker!
There are a lot of clever and helpful people on this forum! Richard Donovan > On 16 Feb 2022, at 05:30, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 7:53 PM Richard Donovan <[email protected]> > wrote: >> It seems that to reply to a post you need the original email to reply to. >> I’m sure that can’t be true as you’d have to keep every email in the event >> that you may desire to reply to one! > > Ah... I guess to some degree that depends on your email client. > > Some email clients thread by date and subject line. Others thread by > the "Message-Id" (and/or "References") in the headers. If you are > replying to the original, the subject line is simple to fix. If you > are replying to a digest, getting the message id right might be a bit > of a stretch. Ideally you would respond with all of those handled > properly by your email client, but in my previous message, I was only > thinking about subject line threading. > > That said, it's not that difficult to save copies of all received > emails (er... if you are getting them...). The disk space required > isn't much on today's hardware. > > Anyways... good luck! > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
