Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:15:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, novembre@gmail.com Subject: Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists Message-ID: <200806111815.m5BIFewD067194@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <3b47caa90806092110o4f409778u29aa15be92c0959e@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, Novembre <novembre@gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is that I don't use any mail client, but the old fashion way of > using a web browser to log into my account and read my emails. That's why I > asked this question in the first place. Call me paranoid, but I just feel > more comfortable that way! > So to be more specific, how can I answer to a post from a mailing list from > within my, e.g., GMail or Yahoo! mailboxes? Is there any way to use the Raw > E-Mail output to send an email from within GMail to the OP and the list so > that it's threaded properly as well? You need to take the "Message-ID" header of the message that you're replying to, and put it into the "In-Reply-To" header of your response. That's what a standard mail client does when you reply to a message. The "In-Reply-To" header is used by clients and webmailers to identify the thread and the order of messages within that thread. I've never used Gmail or Yahoo, so I don't know if they provide a way to manually set the "In-Reply-To" header. If they don't you're out of luck, I'm afraid. By the way, I'm in a similar situation: I'm not subscribed to the lists, but I read them with a news client via an NNTP gateway. That gateway is one-way, i.e. I cannot post follow-ups to the news groups. Instead I use the reply-by- mail function of the news client. This works well, because the NNTP gateway sets the "Reply-To" back to the list's mail address (unless there already was a Reply-To header in the original mail, which is kept), and I configured my news client to copy the Message-ID into an In-Reply-To header, so it works as expected. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd I suggested holding a "Python Object Oriented Programming Seminar", but the acronym was unpopular. -- Joseph Strout
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