[pmmail-list] ~Re: Bug, and request

[Lueko Willms]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:59:51, Brian Morrison wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:46:02 -0700 (MST), Ann Knight wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:21:14, Brian Morrison wrote:
> >
> >>I know it's a new feature, but if only PMMail could be set to thread by
> >>the message ID/reference headers like PMINews
> >
> > There's no such thing as Reference: in email (unfortunately).
> 
> Don't agree, here are some headers from a mailing list I'm on:-
> 
> Message-ID: <3A82B0BC.4ABF89EF@xxx.xxx.xx.xx>
> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:44:12 +0000
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; I)
> X-Accept-Language: en
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> References:
> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102071628290.27092-100000@xxxxx.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx>
> <3A827A87.9242.F0E0A@xxxxxxxxx>
> <200102081040590050.01D9B12C@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> As you can see, some mail clients can and do insert references headers,
> and also thread using them. Sadly, PMMail does neither of these things,
> it also does not generate its own message-ID, which would be a plus.
> 
   Also please consider the following sections from RFC 822: 

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     4.6.2.  IN-REPLY-TO

             The contents of this field identify  previous 
correspon-
        dence  which this message answers.  Note that if message
iden-
        tifiers are used in this  field,  they  must  use  the 
msg-id
        specification format.

     4.6.3.  REFERENCES

             The contents of this field identify other 
correspondence
        which  this message references.  Note that if message
identif-
        iers are used, they must use the msg-id specification format.

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   In other contexts I use Crosspoint (also known as XPOINT, or short
XP) which does support threading based on the message ID not only for
NetNews, but also for Mail. Good program. A OS/2 version is in the
making (see: www.crosspoint.de, www.xp2.de, or www.openxp.de)

Yours, 


Lüko Willms 
Frankfurt/Main 
/ Lueko.Willms@T-Online.de 

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