Thunderbird Slayer ! URGENT

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:52:18AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 08:02:55PM +0300, Peter wrote:
> > I have pinned it down tighter:
> > 
> > The bug appears when there is a thread in which I posted and then 
> > someone replied and I posted again. Then, the thread will have two 
> > messages with the same id, and one of them (the latter one) will point 
> > to the id of the previous one (in References:). But since it will have 
> > the same id, it will point to itself. The threading mechanism probably 
> > chokes on this entering an endless loop. I think that it may be possible 
> > to avoid the bug by turning threading off for that folder. I do not use 
> > Thunderbird. Is that possible ?
> 
> It breaks all threading email clients in some ways.  The real solution
> is that you start using a mail system that works.
> 
> What are you using that reuses message id's in such a broken way?

Actually I am wrong.  It wasn't peter.  I am trying to remember who it
was...  Hmm.

It was always the same user though so someone out there has a very
broken mail system going (or did for a while at least).

Lennart Sorensen
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