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Re: [meta] mailx that generates In-Reply-To headers
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:33:21 +0000
- Subject: Re: [meta] mailx that generates In-Reply-To headers
- References: <20021103205547.GA31469@egil.codesourcery.com>
Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> Several regular posters to the gcc lists use versions of the good
> old-fashioned BSD 'mailx' program to read their mail. It does not
> insert In-Reply-To nor References headers when responding to mail,
> which means that long discussions aren't threaded properly in (e.g.)
> mutt -- this can make carrying on a discussion with these people
> involved very difficult.
>
> Some of these people expressed willingness to change to a version of
> mailx that did insert these headers, if one could be found. The
> 'nail' mailx-clone is such a program. It can be had from
> http://omnibus.ruf.uni-freiburg.de/~gritter/ and appears to be
> portable to a wide variety of Unix variants.
Yay, let's hope they find this acceptable.
Neil.