[buug] mail threading

[Ian Zimmerman]

Ian> What email client ("mail user agent") do you use?

Zeke> Can't you see my "from" line? That will answer your question.

You mean, like, Gmail via the browser?  There are ways to use a normal
specialized mail program with Gmail, you know:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287

In any case, that doesn't explain the absence of the threading headers
from your messages.  I use Gmail myself for "sacrificial" purposes
(when I don't mind my address potentially exposed to spammers) and it
seems to thread just fine; indeed, anything else would surprise given
Google's relatively high attention to standard adherence.  Here is a
bit of the headers from my recent message:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e644c4d812bca504749d0b10
Received: by 10.100.6.20 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:02:31 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <4AC04AED.5050304 at sfems.org>
References: <17af13780909252246l5615439flb2dad6f6d83587a9 at mail.gmail.com>
	 <4ABDD2FF.3090003 at sfems.org>
	 <17af13780909261128j5a2fa8f7jf27008757785cd4b at mail.gmail.com>
	 <4ABEB9D6.3090506 at sfems.org>
	 <17af13780909262349w4ce96a17w86711eaa9453b3a5 at mail.gmail.com>
	 <4AC04AED.5050304 at sfems.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:02:31 -0700
Message-ID: <17af13780909272302u7846afeeod7d3b3f9f37eff1f at mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: charset missing on concert series page?

Also, I was wrong in thinking _all_ your posts were broken; the one I'm
replying to here seems to be just fine.  Hmm.  Maybe you sometimes do
something else than "Reply" or "Reply To All"?  I can see that if you
hover the mouse on the name of the sender it pops up a window with an
option to send.  Don't use that way when you want to continue an ongoing
discussion, please.  Always use the Reply To All feature in such cases.
That's how Gmail (or any other client) knows to insert the magic
treading headers.

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