Re: Can I do this with the registry?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:50:32 -0700 David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote: 

DA> For various reasons, I need to delete messages from my INBOX when I'm
DA> done with them.  Often someone will send me a reply and fail to quote
DA> important context, or I'll simply need to go back and review earlier
DA> messages in the thread.  I keep a "history" folder that essentially
DA> accumulates everything that's passed through my email flow, so I have
DA> the messages, but to find them I have to do lots of navigation.  Oh, and
DA> sometimes I don't "have" all the messages, but they're available on some
DA> NNTP group I subscribe to, because threads get "taken offline" (or the
DA> opposite).

DA> I'd really like a way to collect all the messages connected to a thread,
DA> no matter which groups the thread has passed through.  Can the registry
DA> help with that, and if so, how?

The registry can give you the following for a message ID: sender,
subject, mtime, and groups for that message.  You can also associate
persistent flags with a message.

What you need can be done by looking at the group for each message ID
you need, looking for the message itself, and putting it in a list.
Then you can get the References for the parent message and recurse.  

I think you're asking for the list of messages to be interpreted as a
virtual thread inside the current group, which is pretty hard and I
don't know how to do it.  Displaying the message contents in some way,
though, is not too hard.

Ted