Re: how do i continue a discussion on a old thread
- From:
- Platonides
- Date:
- 2010-10-10 @ 14:27
deepak kannan wrote:
> hi,
> how do i continue a discussion on a old thread.
> The scenario is that i have joined a list recently and would like to
> reply to an old thread wherein, i do not have any mail to reply in my inbox.
> can i send a mail with a thread-id (visible on the archive) or do i have
> to sync the mailbox or something.
>
> thanks,
> deepak
If you can manually set the References header to the Message-Id of the
old emails, it should get threaded correctly.
Re: how do i continue a discussion on a old thread
- From:
- Zed A. Shaw
- Date:
- 2010-10-10 @ 09:03
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:34:13PM +0530, deepak kannan wrote:
> hi,
> how do i continue a discussion on a old thread.
> The scenario is that i have joined a list recently and would like to reply
> to an old thread wherein, i do not have any mail to reply in my inbox.
> can i send a mail with a thread-id (visible on the archive) or do i have to
> sync the mailbox or something.
Usually you can't since it's a mailing list not a forum. If you weren't
part of the conversation then best bet is to just duplicate the "re: "
header.
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Zed A. Shaw
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