On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:08:50PM -0500, Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001, Daniel Eisenbud wrote:
> > Here's the deal: the asterisk means that the message was attached by
> > subject. The question mark denotes a missing reference. So if a
> > message has an in-reply-to: header referring to a message not in the
> > mailbox, its arrow will end with ?->. Mutt then, as before, tries
> > to attach the message by subject, which if it does, will result in
> > an arrow like `*?->. Having both tells you that there's a missing
> > parent of the current message, and that there were no more
> > references so the message was attached by subject. If there's no
> > in-reply-to header, the parent might well be in the mailbox, but
> > mutt has no way of knowing, and the arrow just looks like `*>, as it
> > did before. This is not a bug.
>
> Okay, I read this and am still confused about something. I understand
> about the '?' and '*', but why the multiple '?'s?
A series of referenced messages that don't exist.
-Daniel
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Daniel E. Eisenbud
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"We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of
undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed
hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms."
--Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"
