What, I'm looking around in the docs and I don't see anything about * except that something's "tagged" (which I get when people use Outlook to reply to me it seems??).
>From what I can see, I'd have to set edit_headers to true in my mutt rc to change headers, to start new threads. So what is this # key for mutt? -Mallory On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 06:33:38PM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:27:20PM +0200, Joel Bernstein wrote: > > In case anybody is reading this and is still mystified, never ever > > ever begin a new mailing list thread by replying to an old one and > > deleting bits of it, your mail client is likely to set headers like > > References: and In-Reply-To: which will cause your mail to be threaded > > with the old one. Which is exactly what you told your client and the > > list to do, but almost certainly not what you *wanted* to do. > > The day I learned mutt's # key was a great day; now no longer do I have > to put up with this sort of crap. When anyone ever abuses references > headers like this, I just hit # and hey presto - new thread. :) > > -- > Paul "LeoNerd" Evans > > leon...@leonerd.org.uk > ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 > http://www.leonerd.org.uk/