On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:26:18AM -0800, Michael Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> > Can I convince mutt to ignore the In-Reply-To header if there is a
> > References header?
>
> No. It is assumed that the In-Reply-To field contains the most specific
> message that it is referencing. And there is no way for Mutt to
> distinguish between an email address and a message-id that looks like an
> email address.
Actually, I did add a heuristic to try to weed out addresses in the
in-reply-to header when I did my new threading stuff: if mutt sees
something with eight or fewer characters before the @ in the in-reply-to
header, it will assume that it's an address and ignore it. I couldn't
find any messages with real message-ids that short anywhere in my mail
archives. But even that heuristic is a little bit iffy, and there's no
good way to do better.
That said, mutt could ignore in-reply to in the presence of references.
But that would break threading with lots of broken versions of eudora
that put the first reference into in-reply-to and the rest in
references (references should contain everything, and we in fact have
code that detects both cases and deals appropriately.) I suppose that
this could be controlled by an option, but I think it's better for you
to just procmail all your old mail into shape.
-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"
