From: David Eisner (cradle@glue.umd.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 16:33:39 CDT
So I figured out why some of my messages were omitted from
the thread view (and posted a patch to hypermail-bugs).
Even after this fix, though, 80 messages (of 3195 total) were
dropped from the thread view for the particular archive I'm looking
at.
Here's what's going on. To determine the "parent" of a message,
hypermail examines the In-Reply-To: header. If it's not there,
and the subject starts with "Re:", it makes an educated guess
about the parent based on the subject, and makes a note of the
fact that this was just a guess by setting a "maybereply" flag.
However, the new version of crossindexthread2() (added
March 22) ignores these "maybereply" messages (unless the
only reply to a message is a maybe). So these messages don't
get added to the threadlist, and they don't get printed.
If this is intentional, then I think it would be nice if there
were a setting in the hmrc file to tell hypermail either "Don't
drop guessed replies", and/or "Don't try to guess in the absence
of the In-Reply-To: header." Or something like that.
Just my $0.02.
-David
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