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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Mail headers: advice needed.
From:       Sven Radej <sven () lisa ! exp ! univie ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-06-18 21:59:45
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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Dirk A. Mueller wrote:
>Sven Radej <sven@lisa.exp.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> 1.) Should I add the header "In-Reply-To" with original message ID
>> (clone "References") as Pine does?
>
>yes.
Done.
>
>> 2) I saw that some mails have more references in "References" header. 
>> Where to they come from? I mean you can reply to only one mail at a
>> time.
>
>the first entry should be the same like in "In-Reply-To". Additional
>entries refer to other (former) mails of the same thread. This is
>actually only useful for news clients. it helps them to determine the
>correct threading if the first entry in References is for some reason
>not found by the nntp server, it could try the other
>References-entries.
>
>I'm not sure if a mailclient is forced to set a References header line.
Hmm. It should be done, but I'd like to know standard way to do this without
bloating email message with all previous references.
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Sven Radej      radej@kde.org
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