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

[Mrinal Kalakrishnan <mrinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Babu Kalakrishnan typed:
> 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.

No, the default behaviour is that messages with the same subject line
are grouped together even if the In-Reply-To and References fields
don't exist. However, if strict_threads is set, then messages are
grouped together only if References/In-Reply-To exist.

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(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces.)