"Reply-To" and e-mail threading

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Markus Huber wrote:
> Sorry for opening a new thread, but I am new to the list and do not know 
> how to answer an "old" post.

Normally, you just reply to the message you want to reply to, and your
e-mail system should do the rest automatically. [1] However, it looks
like you're using yahoo.de. They might not be set up to put the correct
line in the e-mail header.

In that case, there's not much you can do: yahoo.de probably won't let
you set those headers, and you really shouldn't have to, anyway.

The good news, though, is that most e-mail clients that understand
threading also understand that there are mail clients that don't set
the headers correctly, and sort on title. That's what mutt, my e-mail
client, did for your e-mail.

Hope this helps,

James.

[1] The Fedora list uses something called "Reply-To munging": it sticks
a header in the e-mail that means that if you click on (or otherwise
select) "Reply", any standards-based e-mail client should send the 
reply to the list.

Personally, I dislike e-mail munging
(http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html) and use procmail to
filter out the standard Fedora list's Reply-To header.

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