Re: mutt skipping messages and the concept of threads
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:17:37AM -0700, Sean wrote:
> I somehow deleted a mesage from someone who only sent me one message and
> I did this by just deleting message by thread where I deleted all
> messages in a thread. What makes up a thread? Also I guess it's
> actually skipping certain messages and not popping them off the server.
> What could be causing this?
> Sean
When you go to the mutt help (F1) there is some info in paragraphs
2.3.3 and 4.9. There's some more, but those seem to be the big ones.
A possible explanation is this. If I reply to your mail, change the
subject and talk about something completely different from your mail,
mutt doesn't notice. It analyses some headers - like In-Reply-To:
<[🔎] 20041119081737.GA681@doghead> - and concludes that this header links
my mail to your mail and that they belong to the same thread. That
would be my fault. Maybe your friend did the same.
About the skipping: you usually don't delete a message, you just mark
it for deletion. The delete operation is carried out when you go to
another folder or when you refresh the current folder (usually with
'$'). As long as those messages are only marked for deletion, the
default behaviour is to skip over them when scrolling through the
message list. You have already marked them for deletion, so they are
not interesting anymore. Maybe that explains it.
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