Okay, next question: What's a good threading email client for windows that supports imaps/TLS, smtp/TLS and smtp-auth? I finally have outlook express working, but would like to try the threading thing.
And thanks for educating me! I'll start out new threads with a fresh message! :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reuben D. Budiardja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:52 AM Subject: Re: how do i install a c-compiler for redhat 9 > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 12:29 pm, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > I wanted to get some clarification on this, so that I don't goof up. > > > > Like Andy, I will sometimes reply to an email on a list if I want to post a > > new message, and just change the subject. Are you saying that the original > > subject still remains in the message somewhere? > > > > Granted, it's laziness on my part, but I didn't think I was doing anything > > wrong... > > No, not the subject. If you can view All Headers of an e-mail message, you > will see a header "References". This keeps track of which message is a reply > to what message *regardless* of the subject. Any sane e-mail client that can > do threading will use that header to order the threat, so eventhough you > changed the subject, it will still be in the same threads as the message > you're replying to (with different subject). > > That is confusing if you read e-mail with threading enabled. But threading has > a lot of advantages. > > So basically you mess up people's thread if you simply reply to an e-mail to > start a new message (thread). > > I googled a bit to get this, if you want to learn more about threading: > http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/message-threading.html > > RDB > > > > > > Ben > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Peter Peltonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Redhat list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:09 AM > > Subject: Re: how do i install a c-compiler for redhat 9 > > > > > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 17:43, Andy Myers wrote: > > > > (i am a newbie so you may have to be a bit more explicit) > > > > > > A tip for a newbie, then: > > > > > > You posted a new message to the list by replying to another message (my > > > message to be explicit). And your message did not have anything to do > > > with that another (my) message. > > > > > > This is bad behaviour as decent mail clients (I suppose your Outlook > > > Express is not one of them) show message subjects in a threaded view > > > like this: > > > > > > > > > +-- Great - just another spam block... > > > > > > +-- Re: Great - just another spam block... > > > > > > > > > So your message ended up looking like this in my mail client's message > > > > subject view: > > > +-- Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice? > > > > > > +-- Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice? > > > > > > +-- Re: how do i install a c-compiler for redhat 9 > > > > > > > > > So instead of being showed as a new message I thought you had replied to > > > my message and ended up reading a message which I did not intend to read > > > at all. > > > > > > Keeping the threads nice and clean also helps archiving and so for > > > searching the messages from message archives. > > > > > > So please, do not do it again! And no, you are not the only one doing > > > this > > > > *sigh*. > > > > > Regards, > > > Peter > > > > > > > > > -- > > > redhat-list mailing list > > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- > Reuben D. Budiardja > Department of Physics and Astronomy > The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN > ------------------------------------------------- > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML > \ / email and proprietary format > X attachments. > / \ > ------------------------------------------------- > Have you been used by Microsoft today? > Choose your life. Choose freedom. > Choose LINUX. > ------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
