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Who adds the In-Reply To [message #26610]

Fri, 29 July 2005 06:11

ligesh

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When mutt sends a post to the mailing list, does it add the 'in-reply-to' or is it added by the mailing list? I am a bit confused here. How can the mailing list know what is the 'in-reply-to'?

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Re: Who adds the In-Reply To [message #26619 is a reply to message #26610]

Fri, 29 July 2005 11:37

ligesh

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Both message-ID and the in-reply-to are are added by the MUA itself ( i saw the message-id to be of the form (122.qmail), and so naturally thought it was added by the MTA, but i don't think that is logically feasible. i will have to check the source code of mutt and figure it out.

Anyway, there is some small bug in the fudforum mail sending code. When a message is modified, someow the 'reply_to' is lost, and neither will fudforum add a in-reply-to when it sends out further mails, nor will it recognize mails that have been replied to this.

I have checked the code and saw 'if ($reply_to) in many places, so i will have to do a bit more searching to understand what's happening

Could ilia please help me out here.

Thanks a lot.

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