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Re: threading broken mailing list and mutt



On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:10:52AM +1030, David Purton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm subscribed to a mailing list that seems to break just about every
> rule of heard people fight bitterly over on this list :)
> 
> The main thing I would like it to do is to thread properly, but
> 
> The in-reply the headers are stuffed:
> 
> ie: original message:
> 
> Message-Id: <date stuff--myusername#mydomain@listdomain>
> 
> The reply message then has a header like this:
> 
> In-Reply-To: <date stuff--postersusername#postersdomain@listdomain>
> 
> This obviously confuses mutt, and it wont thread by headers
> 
> 
> Niether will it work using subject lines:
> 
> original subject:
> 
> [list-name] Subject
> 
> reply subject
> 
> [list-name] Re: Subject
> 
> 
> So mutt doesn't thread on that either.
> 
> Is there a way I can get around this? perhaps using a procmail rule?
> or something else?

You could always just use procmail + sed to filter out '[list-name]'
from the subject, then thread on that, I guess.  It's still icky,
though, is there any chance of convincing the other posters to use
reasonable MUA's?

-- 
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				   http://ertius.org/
If I want a CC, I'll ask for one! | Do I *look* like I want another damn war?

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