OT: breaking threads

[Richard Brown]

Ugo Bellavance wrote:

>         Someone let me know that I am breaking the threads when I reply to
>         posts.  Anyone else noticed that?  Anyone could tell me what I do
>         wrong?  I am using Outlook 2000 & XP and I simply click on "reply"
>         to reply.  If I get the bad reply-to address, I click "reply-all",
>         then remove the adress of the sender so it goes only to the list.
> 
> I know I could try another mail client, but I'd rather not.  I use
> Thunderbird for personal use, but we use outlook a t work.

You're definately breaking threads for me, using Thunderbird, and using
KNode through gmane.

I think it's because you're using Exchange, which is munging your headers.

You have this header, but you're using Outlook:

X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0

Jason's reply to you message says he is also using Outlook, his headers are:

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409
In-Reply-To: <54C38A0B814C8E438EF73FC76F362927410C31 at mtlnt501fs.CAMOROUTE.COM>

So it looks like Exchange is eating your headers, and clients that rely on
In-Reply-To for threading can't thread your messages.

I had a look, but couldn't see much about this problem, or if there was a
way to make Exchange keep the right headers in. If there isn't you could
always set up another account in Outlook and post using SMTP straight to
the jiscmail servers, or swith to gmane and use NNTP to view the list.

HTH

Regards, 

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Richard Brown
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