Hi there!
On 13 Apr 00, at 11:53, Chuck Smith wrote
about "thread by reference":
> I have been playing around with viewing messages by thread recently.
> I
> was not even aware that this feature was available until recently.
> Nice feature to have, but I have one mailing list that when I try to
> View Thread By Reference --- it does nothing. How does TB! apply this
> sorting.?
The message headers should carry the following three fields:
Message-ID:
In-Reply-To:
References:
(see this message headers for the example).
When you compose a totally new message (i.e. not a reply), TB will
automatically add the unique
Message-ID: header field. When somebody replies to this message, the reply
will have it's own unique Message-ID: _and_ the In-Reply-To: header, in which
the message-id of the message being replied to is contained. The next reply,
quite analogously, will have Message-Id: and In-Reply-To: and, on top of that,
References: field, where the ID of the first message goes to. The References:
field is cummulative, that is, it usually contains the IDs of all the messages of
the current thread, separated by the spaces (or at least a sufficiently large
number of IDs if the thread is long enough). This machinery used to be buggy
in the previous versions of TB, but with 1.42 betas it has been fixed.
When TB performs the threading by references, it takes into account all three
headers described above, which makes it possible to arrange messages in
threads in the (logical) order they were created.
As for your problem with the mailing list traffic that wouldn't thread all right:
maybe the MUAs used on that mailing list do not add the threading headers
appropriately? Just look into the full headers of the messages to find out
what's the real case.
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