Dear diary, on Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:15:12PM CEST, I got a letter,
where Christopher Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me, that...
> Mutters,
>
> One of the mailing lists I subscribe to uses the Lyris ListManager
> software, which attaches '[listname]' to the Subject: line of all
> the messages send out. Unlike most list manager software, which
> puts the 'Re:' string before the '[listname]' prefix, Lyris appears
> to put '[listname]' at the beginning of the subject, no matter what.
> This makes it so that mutt can't thread the messages.
>
> How might one go about fixing this on my end? I have a feeling that
> a procmail recipe that uses a sed filter for the Subject: line might
> do the trick. Can anyone suggest a recipe, or perhaps a simpler
> mutt-centric solution?
I have
set reply_regexp="^((\\[|\\()[^]]+(\\]|\\)))?([ \t]*(re([\\[0-9\\]+])*|aw):[ \t]*)?"
(original is set reply_regexp="^(re([\\[0-9\\]+])*|aw):[ \t]*")
in my .muttrc - this makes mutt to ignore [anything] or (anything) (that can be
seen i.e. on USAGI mailing list) when composing subjects for replying and when
threading.
Sure, mutt can still thread by msgid (in-reply-to, i mean), but not everyone is
sending this, and instead of at least trying to attach the message to some
point of thread, mutt will start new thread, which can be pretty annoying. This
should solve this on the mutt's side, but still keeping the [blabla] displayed.
It's not ideal, though, as it i.e. threads all CVS updates of mutt to one
thread, as it ignores the [DATE] part, and the rest of the subject is
different. One just won't choose.. ;)
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Petr "Pasky" Baudis
* ELinks maintainer * IPv6 guy (XS26 co-coordinator)
* IRCnet operator * FreeCiv AI hacker
