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Re: Threading representation within Index



Hi Moritz,

Please see my comments below.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:16 PM PDT, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
MB> 
MB> 
MB> Hi,
MB> 
MB> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:08:58 -0700, Mun Johl wrote:
MB> > Here's my issue: I forward Outlook e-mails to my Linux box (IMAP/POP are
MB> > not supported--don't get me started).  When Outlook does the forwarding,
MB> > it alters some of the header.
MB> 
MB> How do you forward? Do you attach the email to a new email?

I use an Outlook "Rule" to forward all e-mails to my Unix e-mail
account.

MB> If not: I
MB> believe Outlook correctly makes a proper message/rfc822 attachment of
MB> it and also forwards all headers. At least a double-check I just made
MB> looked fine (no References: headers in those emails though).

Maybe it's the lack of References: that causing problems for me?

MB> That said,
MB> you'd need to (manually?) save the attached messages back to an
MB> mbox/maildir/whatever for them to appear "normal" to mutt. Perhaps
MB> that's something procmail could do.

I don't forward the e-mails encapsulated in an attachment.  But maybe I
should.  Based on experiments it does appear as if the original headers
are intact within the attachment.  I'd just need to do some manipulation
of the e-mail once I receive it to strip off the top-level
encapsulation (I think).

Thanks for that clue, Moritz.  I'll have to do a web search to see if a
utility already exists to the stripping.  Otherwise, it shouldn't be too
difficult via procmail and a perl script.

Best regards,

-- 
Mun