[Mailman-Users] replying to old thread

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:51:36PM -0500, Jim Tay wrote:

> If you've deleted all previous emails to a thread, is there some way you
> can continue a thread?  Or will it be considered a new thread by
> mailman?  

You need to put 
In-Reply-To: <message-id-of-the-mail-you-want-to-answer-to>
into the headers of the new mail.

> I tried simply copying the thread name into a new email but that didn't
> work; a new thread is started in the archive.

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Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
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