threads (was: Re: [Techtalk] really basic debian question)

[Gebhard Dettmar]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 06:04, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> On 15/03/06 22:54 +0100, Gebhard Dettmar wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > Threading means that your mail-client lists every posting according to
> > its subject. To give you an idea how it looks like in a common
> > graphical mail-client I put this screenshot here:
> > http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~h044405q/threads.jpg
> > Once you used it, you'll love it :-)
>
> That is what Outlook and gmail do (possibly Thunderbird). Mutt uses the
> References and In-Reply-To headers for threading.
>
Oops, sorry, absolutely true. Even TB uses AFAIK the latter - any 
mail-client capable of threading uses In-Reply-headers/References. Outlook 
sets References correctly but is not capable of threading.
What I wrote makes absolutely no sense - the subject is different but 
since the references do the sorting, not the subject, the posting is filed 
in the thread the refences point to.
Regards Gebhard
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