Broken mail readers (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?)

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 19:33:21 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 14:21 -0400, David wrote:
> On 10/10/2010 2:07 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 13:57 -0400, David wrote:
> >> But you can set the mail server to send you a confirmation that your
> >> message has been received when you post to this list. Actually all of
> >> Fedora's lists have that setting.
> > 
> > True, but that's not the same as getting your own message back. Why
> > would you want that? To keep threading visible in your mail client.
> 
> 
> That was the point. The Bcc: does keep the thread going. It is put in
> the thread as a reply to the email that you 'Reply-List' used.
> If it an original post it appears in the list in you email clinet and
> any replies are tacked to it as if it.
> 
> A 'hack' if you wish but it does work and it does solve this situation.

I understand that, but I wasn't replying to the BCC comment.

poc



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