FYI: Threading Messages Correctly on Thunderbird

[Ken Stevenson]

Jarrod wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Just a quick one for the benefit of anyone who might be using Thunderbird
> to send emails to the freebsd mailing lists.
> Thanks to the postmaster for his/her help on this one.
> 
> It seems that in order to have your replies to a topic threaded 
> correctly you
> need to add a second field to your message header block labelled 
> "Reply-To".
> This can be selected from the drop down list that appears if you click "To"
> on the left side of a header block entry. (Same as making CC, BCC
> fields, etc.)
> 
> On the right side of the "Reply-To" entry, paste the "Message-ID" of the
> message you wish to reply to. This is present for every message when 
> receiving
> in the "digest form".
> 
> (Not sure about receiving messages one-by-one. You might need to go
> View -> Headers -> All in order to see the Message-ID?)
> 
> Be sure to include the leading and trailing angle brackets
> (ie. the less-than and greater-than signs) !!
> 
> Cheers,
> Jarrod.
> 
Is this reply threaded correctly? I sent it using Thunderbird doing 
nothing more than clicking Reply All.

-- 
Ken Stevenson
Allen-Myland Inc.