On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:20:17AM +0100, Daniel Kollar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thank you the regexp, but mutt still does not show threads. I'm
> puzzled.
>
> An example of the subjects, which should be recognized as a thread is
> following:
>
> Subject: [ifc-ml:2583] Re: Illegal circuit data for smincut
> Subject: [ifc-ml:2584] Re: Illegal circuit data for smincut
>
> The sorting method is "thread", and there is of course
> "strict_threads" unset.
>
> Somehow the regexp still does not work.
>
> Any idea?
The problem here, as I understand it, is that mutt expects reply
subjects to be of the form
<reply expression><parent subject>
But certain list servers construct original subjects like this
[ifc-ml:####] <base subject>
and replies like this
[ifc-ml:####] Re: <base subject>
Note that part of the parent subject line has been removed from the
reply subject line.
Even if you construct a reply_regexp that matches "[ifc-ml:####] Re: ",
mutt still can't identify the parent message because the base subjects
don't match: mutt is looking for a parent message whose subject is
"<base subject>", but the subject of the parent message is actually
"[ifc-ml:####] <base subject>". Mutt's threading would only work if the
replies were of the form
[ifc-ml:####] Re: [ifc-ml:####] <base subject>
^^^^ ^^^^
reply ID base message ID
I hope that was clear.
I think the only solution available to us is to change the internals of
mutt to recognize this sort of mangled subject. Perhaps "we" could add
a subject_ignore_regexp to tell mutt what part of a subject line to
ignore when threading messages.
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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