On 08 September 2005 17:53, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Frederik Eaton wrote:
>
>> However, threading by "References", which RFC 2822 says
>> SHOULD be possible, and which works on my other folders, doesn't work
>> well on Haskell mailing lists. Presumably the issue is that there are
>> a large number of Windows users with strange mail clients which don't
>> insert "References" headers.
>
> It isn't so much that there are a large number of such users, but that
> two of the core developers are among them (and are both employed by
> Microsoft, so RFC-conformance probably isn't an option).
Yes, this is partially our fault. When using Outlook through Exchange,
the In-Reply-To header isn't generated at all. Outlook via SMTP works
fine, though. I reported the bug several years ago, let's see if Office
12 fixes it :)
Cheers,
Simon
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