On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 11:50:21AM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 07:08:24PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 07:06:18PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > The problem is that threading isn't working at all, $sort_aux surely > > > > just changes the sort rules within a thread. At the moment mutt isn't > > > > seeing/showing threads at all even though there are several messages > > > > with the same subject. > > > > Am I being stupid or is this feature just not working? > > > Yes, I am being silly! Mutt will only thread when the 'child' messages > > subject has "Re:" at the front (or whatever matches that regular > > expression). > > Mutt's threading isn't primarily based on subject line. The proper way > to determine threads is to look at the Message-IDs in the In-Reply-To: > header.
Yes, I know that, in my original question I said that it was just one rather awkward list that I belong to which doesn't handle Message-ID properly. > > But either way, the intent is to group replies to a message together, > rather than grouping all messages with the same subject together in one > thread. > Yes, understood. It just took me a while to work out how to thread messages in one particular mailing list which doesn't do Message-IDs and also doesn't put Re: in front of the subject when one replies. (It's a 'hand made' gateway to/from a forum, why they didn't use one of the ready made solutions I really don't know) -- Chris Green
