Re: Thunderbird and MIDs

R.Wieser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> > I don't know if it still works in Outlook Express (Rudy?).
> 
> Yes, it does.  Both when clicking the news:// link inside a post, or when 
> putting it into my webbrowser (FF 52) (which than handed it off to OE).

  Thanks! Outlook Express rocks, but you already knew that! :-)

> I also tried to put your posts message-ID
> ([email protected]) after the news:// protocol
> header, but although OE tried, it told me that it could not find the server
> (ID-201911.user.individual.net).

  No, for a message-ID, the format is <news:MID> without the two
slashes, i.e. for my post:

<news:[email protected]>

  With the slashes, it indeed expects a server. As mentioned in an
earlier post:

Format Examples
news:[email protected] (refers to a specific article).
(i.e. the format I gave)
...
Optional Authority: A server can be specified (e.g.,
news://news.example.com/example.group), but if omitted, it defaults to
the user's configured news server.

  I don't know by heart if a server without a group is also permitted,
i.e.

news://news.example.com

  Anyway, as a MID contains a '@', but a server doesn't, the newsreader
could probably say something like  "wrong format, server expected".

  Bottom line;

<news:[email protected]>

should work and I expect it to work in good old Outlook Express.