Grant Taylor wrote: >Gerrat Rickert wrote: >> I may have misremembered how a previous posting of mine was >> mis-indented (...postings were from a few years back, and it may have >> just been that my replies were shown at the top level instead of >> indented - I believe this may have been an old bug with Outlook >> specifically). > >I don't know if it is related or not, but I have noticed a similar >problem with my Mail <-> News gateway (included with Mailman). >Specifically messages that I reply to the mailing list seem to loose the >message ID of the immediate parent message and what should look like this: > > - first message > + second message > + third message > >Often > > - first message > + second message > + third message > >I have attributed this to the fact that Mailman either munges or out and >out replaces the Message-ID.
I think this is unrelated to any of Gerrat's issues. Mailman does replace the Message-ID header in messages gated from a list to usenet. The reason for this is if a message is cross-posted to two Mailman lists, both of which gateway to usenet groups, the messages will be separately gated to the nntp server, and if they have the same Message-ID, the nntp server will ignore the second one it receives. This can lead to the issue above because messages posted to a list will have one Message-ID in the list archive and a different Message-ID on usenet. Suppose 'second message' above is a reply to 'first message' from the list. Its In-Reply-To: and References: headers reference the list Message-ID of 'first message and it is properly threaded in the list archive. Then 'third message' is a usenet reply to 'second message'. Since it is a usenet reply, its In-Reply-To: references the usenet Message-ID of 'second message' which is unknown to the list archive. Its References: header will reference the usnet Message-ID of 'second message' and the list Message-ID of 'first message' from the References: header of 'second message'. Thus, when it gets archived, it is threaded as a reply to 'first message' since that is the only referenced Message-ID known to the archiver. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
