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Re: Iptables



Le 27/06/2014 20:34, The Wanderer a écrit :
>
> Every E-mail or newsgroup post made by a standards-compliant mail
> program contains a theoretically-unique ID number, called the Message-ID
> header.
>
> When you hit Reply on an E-mail using a modern mail client (and quite a
> few non-modern ones), in addition to generating a new Message-ID for
> your reply, the mail client creates another header called "In-Reply-To".
> It copies the Message-ID from the original mail into this new header.
>
> Then, when someone receives both the original mail and your reply, their
> own mail client can use these two headers to figure out that "these two
> mails belong together, in this order".
>
> Some mail clients (such as Thunderbird) can use that information to
> display a nested hierarchy of "which mail is a reply to which", which I
> find very useful; others just use it for "conversation view"-type
> sorting; others ignore it entirely. If someone using a mail client which
> is configured to not ignore that information receives both messages,
> they will immediately be able to tell that your message is a reply, even
> if you changed the Subject line.
>
> The essential takeaway from this is that if you want to create a new
> thread on a mailing list or similar public forum, it's not good enough
> to just hit Reply on an existing mail and change the Subject line; you
> need to create a New mail instead, and enter the To address separately.
>
And note that with Icedove (that Diogene uses) you can right click on
the address in the header of an existing post and choose "send a message
to this address", or equivalent (I have a french version). Which will
really create a new email.



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