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Re: Authentication for telnet.



On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 01:59:07PM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 04:00 -0700, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> [...]
> > Ideally the syntax 
> > required for correct threading would be posted in the debian site.
> 
> What's it got to do with Debian? Correct email threading is a property
> of the email clients the senders and receivers of emails use. You'd
> hope writers of those email clients would have read RFC2822 (or RFC822
> if they're from last century) and implemented support for Message-ID,
> References, and In-Reply-To fields.

See also the relevant Wikipedia page [1] for a more digestible description,
with lots of references.

If you stick to that, the Debian mailing list software will do the right
thing (otherwise it'd have generated a bug report long ago).

Cheers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_mail#Message_format

-- tomás

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