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<p>On 12 Dec 2011, at 4:28, Emory L. wrote:</p>
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<p><em>Not sure if replying to the digest post from Amiram will wreck threading for people, swapping the subject line out and giving it a try.</em></p>
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<p>Well, it was the message from Amiram which broke the threading, because MailMate uses the <code>Message-ID</code> of the digest email which is unrelated to the <code>Message-ID</code> of the original thread.</p>
<p>I have never looked into the digest format, but IF the format contains all the message ids of the original messages (and their subjects) then it may be possible to introduce a feature in MailMate where the user is asked which message is the original. Then the correct <code>Subject</code> and <code>Message-ID</code> header could be inserted by MailMate. This would be a so-called blue sky feature :-) And it is very likely that other meta-data is lost (such as format=flowed and use of Markdown).</p>
<p>In general: I continue to recommend not using the digest format (unless you only read emails and never write). Note that threads of no interest can be muted (“Message ▸ Mute”) which means that any new messages are automatically moved to the same location as the muted parent. (But that is also going to break when someone replies to a digest.)</p>
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<p>I haven't played with that much but when I CopyasLink I get a message URL in my clipboard like this:</p>
<p>message://%3c201112100021.asdfasdf@asdferasdasef%3e</p>
<p>and then clicking that opens the message even if I have subsequently Archived it or saved it to another folder like a yearly archive folder.</p>
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<p>Just to confirm: This works no matter where the message is located. The only problem can be if a duplicate of the message exists. The value used in the URL is simply the <code>Message-ID</code> header of the message. It could also be stated as:</p>
<pre><code>message://<201112100021.asdfasdf@asdferasdasef>
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<p>It is, by the way, used by Apple Mail which is why I use by default, but it is essentially the same as the standardized <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2392"><code>mid:</code> URL scheme</a>. MailMate supports the <code>message:</code>, <code>mid:</code>, and <code>cid:</code> URL schemes.</p>
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<p>Benny</p>
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