Hello Mike,
Mike Fieschko wrote:
> >>> "Peter" == Peter Heckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> Peter> I have problems with threading. Mails made with Netscape
> Peter> and Kmail are threaded fine. Other Mails created by Emacs
> Peter> or Outlook are not threaded correctly.
>
> [snip]
>
>
> In what way are mails you receive from emacs users "not
> threaded correctly"? Are the emacs users also using VM, or do they
> use exmh or something else?
Netscape doesnt thread your messages correctly. I had a look to the
headers and cannot find out why. Your headers look fine.
(Couldnt find anybody else posting with VM or Emacs :-)
I did some work to investigate how netscape does threading.
I viewed the headers and looked to the treading and made some
conclusions therefrom.
Netscape ignores the "In-Reply-To" Field.
Netscape uses the "References" Field.
If no "References" are found,then Netscape does threading by
Subject.
If a "Reference"-Field points to a posting,which doesnt contain a
"References" field, or/and doesnt begin with "Re:" in the subject,
then the Reference-field sometimes :-) is ignored.
So Netscape seems to use a mixture of heuristic methods and
"References" threading.
> On what bases do Netscape and Kmail thread?
I myself dont use KMail because it doesnt support IMAP.
I could only find one little difference between VM's headers
and KMail's headers.
Both, VM and KMail produce the "In-Reply-To" field.
KMail lists the "In-Reply-To" field after the "References" field.
VM lists the "In-Reply-To" field first.
The only thing which I can think of, is that netscape is seeing
the "In-Reply-To" field first and then it gives up and ignores
the "References" Field.
This would clearly be a netscape related problem.
Until now I had not time to get involved with emacs,
I'm not an IT-professional and I'm using Linux only after
work at home. It's my passion,not my job.
greetings,
Peter
