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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: GMail injects fake Message-IDs
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:57:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d3h6p5sn.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tyapqx7k.fsf@boostpro.com>

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> In attempting to figure out why `gnus-summary-refer-parent-article' was
> so often failing to find the root article of my mail threads, I looked
> carefully and saw that GMail generates some kind of fake message-ID.  These
> headers appeared in the 2nd message of a thread:
> In-Reply-To: <CAEOvpkmO5SGPdbqUrUgyi0LSPZyCQU2JfJpwUDq0EEuZn6B8OQ@mail.gmail.com>
> References: <m2d3ho45ip.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com>
> 	<CAEOvpkmO5SGPdbqUrUgyi0LSPZyCQU2JfJpwUDq0EEuZn6B8OQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Message-ID: <CAEOvpknPA15TgaGXTSb-pHK7amvX8Jr9WrjFZ=bv8upAxdBBWA@mail.gmail.com>
> The first message of the thread was
> <m2d3ho45ip.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com>.  As far as the thread
> participants are concerned,
> <CAEOvpkmO5SGPdbqUrUgyi0LSPZyCQU2JfJpwUDq0EEuZn6B8OQ@mail.gmail.com>
> never existed.  Is there something Gnus can do to work around this oddity?

Gmail inserted a Message-ID that never existed into the References
header?  That sounds very odd.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-19 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-14  4:53 Dave Abrahams
2011-07-19 16:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-07-19 21:54   ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-19 22:18     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-23 15:32       ` Dave Abrahams

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