Re: Thunderbird and MIDs

Frank,

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

Yes, it does.  Even though it has got some ... quirks.

>> I also tried to put your posts message-ID
[snip]
>  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.

Ah, ofcourse.  I should have realized.

> As mentioned in an earlier post:

Mea culpa.  I thought that, as long as I was testing, I could do a quick 
test of this too.  I should have gone back and read (instead of skimming) 
that/those posts too.

>  Bottom line;
>
> <news:[email protected]>
>
> should work and I expect it to work in good old Outlook Express.

Clicking it inside OE or going thru my webbrowser indeed works.  Odd that OE 
doesn't seem to have any place to enter/drop such a MID into it directly. 
Oh well.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser