Fixing In-Reply-To problems

Fixing In-Reply-To problems

[Wes Hardaker]

So, I've been getting sick of broken threads due to broken mailers
sending different types of In-Reply-To headers.  I've been
thinking...  Couldn't something be done like:

1 Find In-Reply-To header
2 Search for <blah> on the line
3 Check to see if blah is a valid existing reference
  - Yes: use it
  - No: go back to 2 and continue search.
4 none matched, bail as normal and collect into dummy, or whatever the 
  default is set to.

Right now, it is just taking a predefined location for the reference
header, which frequently is wrong due to email addresses, etc,
confusing it.  Can't we compare against known existing message ids
before using it?  Just a thought...

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Re: Fixing In-Reply-To problems

[Paul Franklin]

I'll suggest a hack-ish alternative...

Use the longest string which looks like a message ID.

I know, it's just a hack to replace the existing hack, but I think
it'll work more often, because I've observed that a message's ID is
usually longer than its sender's email address.

--Paul

Re: Fixing In-Reply-To problems

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 07 Jan 1998 12:02:59 -0800, Paul Franklin <paul@cs.washington.edu> said:

Paul> I know, it's just a hack to replace the existing hack, but I
Paul> think it'll work more often, because I've observed that a
Paul> message's ID is usually longer than its sender's email address.

Well, that is better than the current function most likely.  You're
probably right, they would almost always be longer, but certainly not
all the time...  I'd guess more right than not, however, which isn't
true of the current function which I'd guess is getting about 50% of
the cases (mailer's choice on which to put first on the line).

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Re: Fixing In-Reply-To problems

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Paul Franklin <paul@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> I'll suggest a hack-ish alternative...
> 
> Use the longest string which looks like a message ID.

It's an idea.  Fix in Quassia Gnus v0.23.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen