[email protected] wrote: > I have noticed a potential message threading problem on the new Legacy > mail server/mailing list... > > Message-ID > ---------- > > Legacy now appears to assign a unique Message-ID to every single email > it sends out to the list users. The old server/list simply reused the > incoming Message-ID that came with the original post for every outgoing > email. > > This could potentially cause threading problems for LUG users (and the > LUG Archives). > > Here is an example: > > 1) I receive Ron's list msg as "[email protected]". > 2) Jenny receives the same list msg as "[email protected]". > 3) Jenny replies to Ron's list msg. > 4) Jenny's reply comes to me with In-Reply-To of > "[email protected]" (which technically I never received). > > The way it used to work: > > 1) I receive Ron's list msg as "a...@ronsmachine". > 2) Jenny receives the same list msg as "a...@ronsmachine". > 3) Jenny replies to Ron's list msg. > 4) Jenny's reply comes to me with In-Reply-To of > "a...@ronsmachine" (which I did receive). > > In the 1st case it can't be threaded using the In-Reply-To header. In > the 2nd case it can. > > *** > > I am not sure how different email clients (and the Legacy Archives) > determine threading, but my guess is that if they can't count on the > In-Reply-To (or References) header, then they will likely default to > threading by Subject. So be aware that you might see some posts popping > up in a thread where they don't really belong. > > *** > > I believe that the solution to the problem would for the server/list > *not* to assign its own Message-IDs, but to simply re-use the Message-ID > that came with the incoming post. However, I don't know if Legacy's new > server/list has this ability. Apparently the old one did have this > capacity. > > *** > > Also posted to the LUG to make users aware of the potential issue. > I am using Thunderbird on WinXP and have messages sorted by thread. The messages from the new list address sort perfectly, under the correct OP and in the correct order.
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