Hi, * Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> I've had a similar problem before, only not with unrelated messages > but rather with messages that don't contain certain headers (e.g. > Message-ID). I think the reason is because mutt uses Message-ID to > link threads---if a message doesn't HAVE an ID, mutt simply fails to > link the messages, rather than attempt to give the message a > Message-ID header. > There might be good reasons for this, but I don't know what they are. > I think it's probably more complicated to add a header to both > messages than it is to modify an existing header in a single message, > but I don't know the details. Hmm, I think the reason is rather that nobody thought of this case. A problem with assigning it a locally generated Message-ID is that it's locally generated, i.e. nobody else that. If this is, for example, a mailing list message, and you assign a new one, you'll break everybody else's References because they don't know you generated an ID for it. Anyway, shouldn't the first MTA in the mail path that sees a message without an ID assign one? I'm just curious because such a message shouldn't make it to anyway. Rocco
