[meta] mailx that generates In-Reply-To headers

[Neil Booth]

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.