On Thursday 10 January 2008 08:07:44 pm Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 09:30 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > > But from what I can tell, it appears at my end that I created a new > > message, and then simply hit the 'reply to' button, added my comments > > to the bottom of the file, and fired it away. I could not see > > anything that was added inadvertently by Kmail - but if you do see > > something that is 'added/mutilated/whatever', please reply with the > > offensive message - I'd like to know if Kmail is doing something > > behind my back. > > When you "reply" to a message, it's sent out with additional headers > that have the following information: > A "In-Reply-To" header, which has the message ID, written after it, > of the message that it's in reply to. > A "References" header, which has the message IDs, written after it, > of all the other messages in the same thread. > The two of them allow decent mail clients to group messages together in > the same thread, and place them in the correct order. Unrelated > messages, like yours, will be jammed into the wrong thread. It > interrupts the thread, sometimes aborting a discussion on the original > thread. And means that your message will be unseen by other people > ignoring that thread. Perhaps unseen by the person with the right > answer. > If your message is *not* a reply to someone else's, then do NOT use the > reply feature of your mail client. Create a "new" message. On some > clients you can do so simply by clicking on the "To" address of an > existing message, to create a new message to that address. On others, > you'll have to create a new message and add the right to address to the > "To: field. For those, you can make life easier for yourself by adding > the mailing list's address to your address book. > -- Hmm. I wonder if what is happening is that since I do not have a mailing address list yet for this email client, what I do from time to time is to reply to a random thread, clear the subject and body fields, and begin a new subject/body message and then fire it away. Wow. I had ASSUMED that I had a blank slate. I guess what you see is not what you get? Is this what is happening? If so, this is mind-blowing for me as I did this unconsciously while focusing on what I wanted to write. So, I guess I MUST initiate/create a NEW message, and either type in the To: field or get it from the address book? Don't just grab a thread and create a new message. Wow. Dan
