On Fri, Nov 30, 2001, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: > Here's the deal: the asterisk means that the message was attached by > subject. The question mark denotes a missing reference. So if a > message has an in-reply-to: header referring to a message not in the > mailbox, its arrow will end with ?->. Mutt then, as before, tries > to attach the message by subject, which if it does, will result in > an arrow like `*?->. Having both tells you that there's a missing > parent of the current message, and that there were no more > references so the message was attached by subject. If there's no > in-reply-to header, the parent might well be in the mailbox, but > mutt has no way of knowing, and the arrow just looks like `*>, as it > did before. This is not a bug.
Okay, I read this and am still confused about something. I understand about the '?' and '*', but why the multiple '?'s? Thanks. -Ken
