On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:58:05 -0500 (EST), peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > When a message was created by clicking the Reply button > in that mailer, a correct In-reply-to parameter was included. > No complaint. > > The problematic case is where a message in the archive is > read with the browser and then a reply is created by a > click on the Compose button in the Web based mailer. > In that case I can see the Message-id being replied to > but the mailer offers no way to insert it for the In-reply-to > parameter. An example is this message. > "http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/msg00283.html" > So for most of my messages, In-reply-to was correct. > At least one was faulty.
I can attest to that. I also use a webmail client provided by my mail service provider that does not allow the user to manually set the "In-Reply-To" field. The webmail client generates one if you click on the Reply button within the mailer itself. But you have to receive the e-mail to reply to it. Here's how I do it. (1) I subscribe to the list. That way, I get *all* the e-mails. (2) An incoming e-mail from the listserv shows the "From" field as the original sender's e-mail address, not the listserv's e-mail address. I'm not sure why, but it does. The "To" field shows the list it was sent to, usually debian-u...@lists.debian.org. I select the "To" field, debian-user@lists.debian.org, with the mouse and click Edit -> Copy in the browser action bar. I then click on the "Reply" field. I am now in another window in which I can compose a reply. The mailer, behind the scenes, has set the "In-Reply-To" field based on the incoming message, and the "To" field is pre-filled in with the sender's e-mail address, which is not the e-mail address I want to reply to. I then highlight the "To" field with the mouse and click on Edit -> Paste in the browser action bar. The "To" field now contains the list address. It's kind-of kludgy, but it works. In Peter's case, his primary system was down and he was using a back-up e-mail address to post. This e-mail address was not subscribed to the list. He couldn't "Reply" to an e-mail he did not receive, he could only compose a new one. And the web-based e-mail client didn't give him a mechanism to manually set the "In-Reply-To" header. In a case like that, Peter, the best you can do is to make your subject line match *exactly*, character by character, with the mail you are "replying" to. It will generally show up in the archives next to the main thread under the title "Possible follow-ups". But it will be disconnected from the main thread. There's really nothing you can do about that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org