Re: [Mantisbt-dev] References e-mail header

[Julian F. <ju...@be...>]

Ondrej Jombik wrote:
>>>AFAIK: References header aim is to reference e-mail messages by its
>>>replies. Thus new e-mails should have this empty. Particular values
>>>for References header are extracted from Message-ID header.
>>
>>Yes, so is this an ugly hack, or is it an "acceptable" use of the
>>references header?  If it isn't valid and the threading is going to be
>>weird, we should just add custom X- headers to hold this information.
>>This works equally well for filtering mail... the only reason to use
>>references is if that makes actual sense.
> 
> 
> Actually we have added an implementation of threading based just on
> References without Message-ID setting. My later response was due to
> observations of this matter. I wanted to know if they would sort. And
> they do. At least in Mutt; I will check also Pine e-mail client.

Cool.  If I can see the code, I'll give it a try in Mozilla.

> 
> 
>>X-mantis-project-number X-mantis-project-name X-mantis-bug-number
>>X-mantis-server-name
> 
> 
> Setting these does not make so much sence, since they are not used for
> threading and sorting of e-mail messages.
> 
> So conclusion: the code I posted (btw. did I post code doing this?) is
> doing its job well and can be used in production environment. All the
> things it does is setting up References e-mail header to right values.

As far as I remember you never posted code.  I think this is a cool idea 
  (although Mozilla actually seems to thread them fine based on their 
subjects) so if you have code I would very much like to see it.  I'm 
still not 100% clear what you are proposing so I'm interested to see it 
more concretely.

Julian

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