Roberto Suarez Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sat, 27 May 2000:
> Hi!
Hi!
> I'm using Mutt 1.2, but I think my problem has not too much to do with
> the version, because it's likely a misconfiguration thing.
That part sounds right.
[...]
> So, when I want to see the folder threaded, there are
> messages that don't appear in the same thread even when they share the same
> subject.
Ok, Mutt certainly should thread these messages, if you don't have
$strict_threads set.
The first thing to do would be to check the value of $strict_threads,
even if you're not changing the value in your .muttrc, maybe the system
Muttrc does, or something else like that. It's easy enough to verify
the value:
:set ?strict_threads
That will tell you the current state. (That same command can be used
to view the state of any other Mutt variable too, BTW...)
Once you're sure it's not set, you can start thinking about the other
things:
1) I *think* (not sure) that if you have had it set, and unset it, you
need to make Mutt re-sort the folder. Either re-open it, or change the
sort older... Not sure, although it would be easy enough to test. :-)
2) Often the messages don't have an *identical* subject, but instead
have "Re: " or something like that in the beginning. Mutt will still
know to group messages together in a thread by the subject, ignoring
that leading bit -- this because of $reply_regexp, a regular expression
defining all possible reply/forward/etc. subject line prefixes that are
to be ignored. The default should be adequate for all normal
situations, but if the language is different or the subjects are somehow
mangled besides the usual "Re: ", you may need to tweak this setting.
3) As it was recently discussed, Mutt pays attention to the timestamps
in messages (the Date header), and will know thread a message that is
dated earlier (older) under a message that is dated later (newer). This
may cause problems if someone's computer's clock is off. Because of
this, some messages that should be part of some thread may appear before
that thread.
I hope that helps. If it doesn't, please post us more details...
(variable states, message Subject/References sample headers, etc.)
Regards,
Mikko
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