On Saturday, March 29, 2025 8:57:24 AM Mountain Standard Time Nilesh Patra wrote: > On 29/03/25 9:13 pm, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On Saturday, March 29, 2025 2:34:35 AM Mountain Standard Time > > Nilesh> > > Patra wrote: > >> On 28/03/25 9:33 pm, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > >>> I didn't realize it was a hard break. My fault. > >>> > >>> In fact, thinking more about it, the hard break wasn't inserted > >>> by > >>> Gmail, but by me copying and pasting from the web interface, > >>> because I'm not suscribed to -vote and I read it there (that's > >>> also why I can't set In-Reply-To correctly unless I'm actually > >>> replying to an email that was sent to me, I've never found how > >>> to > >>> add it manually in Gmail). When I reply to an actual email, my > >>> quoting style works because there are no hard breaks within > >>> sentences. I didn't realize that this case was different. > >> > >> Just use a proper mail client where you can set that. It works > >> reasonably well with (neo)mutt. > >> > >> You are pretty much breaking all the threads wherever you reply > >> to. > > > > Notice how beautifully this problem would be solved if we no > > longer > > had hard breaks at 80 columns. ;) > > Please explain how? I apologize, I was not responding to the discussion about reply headers, but to the discussion about how copying the hard line breaks from the web interface to the email client caused it to mangle the quoted text in such a way that it appeared that Gerardo had said something he didn’t. It is not uncommon for people to want to engage in discussions on mailing lists that they are not subscribed to, the only way I can think to do so being to respond to text from the web interface of the mailing lists. Not hard wrapping that text makes this easier, as this thread demonstrates. To the specific question of the reply-to headers, Kmail is capable of correctly threading Gerardo’s messages even though the header is not set. I haven’t looked into what information Kmail is using to do so, but perhaps you might want to submit a feature request to (neo)mutt to implement similar logic. -- Soren Stoutner soren@debian.org
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