Re: move article out of thread.

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>> "Eric" == Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>    >> 
>    >> But I meant just moving it in the tread *before* replying to it.
>    >> 
>    >> Uwe 
>
>    > It was just a guess -- I meant editing and resaving the message without
>    > a References header before you reply to it. I just tried it with a mail
>    > message -- I had to get rid of both References and In-Reply-To, but
>    > after that gnus believed it was a parent message and moved it to the top
>    > of its own thread.
>
>
>
> Well I am using the imap backend.  I tried your suggestion and it worked,
> at first. After I toggled threading off and on again, the old threading
> was restored. I have not seen such a feature in other mail readers, so
> maybe it is difficult to implement.

Yeah, I don't use imap and I imagine it's simpler with nnmail, where the
messages are just local files you can mess with as you please. Perhaps
the header changes are getting reset, or there's some way you can
propagate them to the server? I'm shooting in the dark, I'm no expert...

E