I'm having a problem understanding why some messages are threaded as
they are. It seems incorrect to me, but it's probably some subtlety I
don't understand. I am using mutt-1.2i, but the appearance is the same
using mutt-1.0pre4us. Here's an example from the vim mailing list,
which I route to a separate mailbox and sort using
sort=threads
sort_aux=last-date-received
sort_re is set
strict_threads is unset
The index menu shows (in part):
1001 May 20 Schuttberg@aol. (1.8K) Re: Mapping problem
1002 May 20 Benji Fisher (0.7K) `->
1003 May 20 Glyn Millington (0.7K) Mapping problem
1004 May 20 Stefano Lacapra (1.2K) |->
1005 May 20 Alexander N. Be (1.5K) `->
The initial message is 1003. Replies 1003, 1004 and 1005 are threaded
as I would expect them to be, but replies 1001 and 1002 are in a
separate thread. I can change this by unsetting sort_re:
1001 May 20 Schuttberg@aol. (1.8K) Re: Mapping problem
1002 May 20 Benji Fisher (0.7K) |->
1003 May 20 Glyn Millington (0.7K) `*>
1004 May 20 Stefano Lacapra (1.2K) |->
1005 May 20 Alexander N. Be (1.5K) `->
but that's not right, either, because message 1003 is shown as a reply
rather than as the root of the thread. The parts of the message headers
that I think might be relevant are:
1001:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 20 04:34:59 2000
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 07:33:38 EDT
Subject: Re: Mapping problem
1002:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 20 05:39:02 2000
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 08:39:06 -0400
Subject: Re: Mapping problem
1003:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 20 04:01:30 2000
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 12:56:48 +0100
Subject: Mapping problem
1004:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 20 07:53:38 2000
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 13:05:05 +0200
Subject: Re: Mapping problem
1005:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 20 07:55:01 2000
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 13:31:06 +0200
Subject: Re: Mapping problem
When sorted by date received, they appear in the "correct" order, but of
course not threaded. I also looked for extra whitespace characters in
the Subject lines, but they all look identical to me.
So is this a bug, or am I missing something?
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | RF Communications Product Generation Unit
| Spokane, Washington, USA
