On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 13:21:51 at 01:21:51PM -0400, Ron Joffe (rjoffe@yahoo.com) wrote:
After the recent thread on broken threads, I was wondering if anyone had come up with a way to programmatically correct broken threads in an mbox?
I have never tried this deliberately, because, as I made abundantly clear in the other thread, I see this as a bad manners problem, and there is no amount of technology able to fix bad manners: only clearly motivated reprimands. For the same reasons, I'd suggest that nobody tries to fix this problem in that way. Said this, I know that what you ask is possible with Mutt, if you build it yourself with the proper patches. See the mutt website for details. I don't know about other mailers. The same thing is also certainly doable in procmail, with a recipe saying "keep all msg-ids, and reformat (strip In-Reply-To header) messages whose parent has a different subject". I haven't the faintest idea on how to write such a recipe though. Even in this case, something is probably available in the procmail archives, this problem did come up over there too. HTH, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ Excuse me for being greedy, but I want freedom and good government. Both a flourishing economy and a well-cared-for earth. A society that is diverse and communal.. that offers both privacy and accountability. One that can afford a big conscience, along with lots of neat toys. -- David Brin -- The Transparent Society