Hi,
I understand your situation and your motivation quite well. I work in
an Outlook-centric corporation too.

> I've determined that Outlook disregards References and In-Reply-To
> headers, and instead relies on Thread-Topic and Thread-Index headers.
> Mutt doesn't preserve either of these headers.

While I like your approach of increasing compatibility for the benefit
of yourself and or other users - I have contributed to Rocco's attempts
at increasing Sun mailtool compatibility - I am totally pissed at
Outlook. For years has it been breaking threads itself (IIRC), has
never been able to display emails in a threaded manner until recently.
And here comes the most popular new feature (I have seen polls) of
Office 2010: Threaded mail view! Welcome, Microsoft, to the world of
proper email. 20 or so years later than everyone else. And guess what:
20 years of well established standards, and Microsoft prefers to
implement their own junk. If Microsoft weren't so wide spread, we would
just leave them to suffer. But ... oh well.

Enough rant. Had to get rid of that. *phew*

Moritz

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