Re: [aur-general] replying-on-thread issues (was AUR & Copyright)

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 14:03 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 13:49, Nicky726 wrote:

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Could that be that I get Arch's mailing lists as diggests and reply to them in the client and copy the subject of the particular message. Am I supposed to do it in a different way? (Possibly with keeping the messages delivered in a digest, not every separetely). Now as this is a reply to a directly delivered message, it should fit correctly. I didn't touch the subject field in this case at all. Btw, thax you're trying to debug my issues.

I don't usually subscribe in digest-mode, but I vaguely recall that there's a setting to get the digest in the form where each message is a MIME attachment to the digest message (if that makes sense). When I did that then my MUA, mutt, could open each attachment as an email and I could reply from that view, which resulted in the correct In-Reply-To and In-Relation-To values. I'm not a user of KMail myself so you'll have to experiment with it to see if it behaves the same way as mutt ;-)

/M

On other MLs I'm on the general perception is that if you plan to reply, please don't use digests. In other words, digest subscriptions should be considered 'read-only', precisely because of the thread-breaking behaviour. Magnus' solution sounds nifty though, if you can get it working.