Re: Threading and mutt (was: Re: Perhaps this is what Linux needs...)

[Babu Kalakrishnan <kalakrishnan@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:05:33AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian typed:
> Binand Raj S. rearranged electrons thusly:
> 
> > Suresh Ramasubramanian forced the electrons to say:
> > >  it added.  I'm not adding it as changing the subject line would break
> > >  threading and start a new thread in mutt] :)
>  
> > It won't - most MUAs (including mutt) thread on the basis of the
> > In-Reply-To: header.
>  
> In-Reply-To: and References: headers, as a matter of fact.  However, it applies
> that way iff you set strict_threads (which is off by default).

As far as I can recall, mutt always uses the In-Reply-To: and
References: fields. By turning ON strict_threads, you only *add* one more
criterion - i.e messages  with the same subject line are also added to the
thread.

Kala