Robert Hsiung wrote: > >Do any of you know of an easy way to organize email into threads?
Not necessarily easy, but see <http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html>. >My first idea was to use Mailman, with the message board based on the >threaded archives, but Mailman doesn't actually seem to do a great >job of threading, plus I'm afraid I'd need to learn Python (what I'm >comfortable with is Perl). Mailman's archives are threaded based on the Message-ID: of one post being in either the In-Reply-To: or References: header (or both) of a subsequent post. This is an incomplete solution fo a number of reasons including: 1) Not all MUAs include either a In-Reply-To: or References: header in replies. 2) People 'hijack' threads by creating a new post as a reply to a previously received post. 3) Replies to posts in 'plain' format digests won't be threaded even if they have a proper Subject:. 4) A direct recipient of a post which is delayed in reaching the list can post a reply which reaches the list before the original. In this case the reply isn't threaded even after the original arrives. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
