Re: References in forwarded messages

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:14:45 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.mutt.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 04:57:21PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Mutt-dev wrote:
>When I forward a message, I want to have it threaded under the original
>mail.  For that, I manually add either an In-Reply-To or a References
>(depending on my mood that day, I guess) to have it threaded by mutt(1).
>
>I often forget to do this, so it would be nice if mutt(1) would do it
>automatically.
>
>I know some people are against this (especially the In-Reply-To one,
>since it's not a reply, technically).
>
>What do you think of adding a 'References' header field to forwarded
>mails?
>
>Should we do it with a new config?  (I prefer avoiding a new config, but
>if we can't have consensus on changing the behavior for everyone, it
>would be a viable way.)

This is technically easy to change, but it's heresy from an email client 
perspective. :-)  The biggest issue for me is that it doesn't affect just 
you, but the receiver of the email too.

I'd need to be persuaded that this isn't just "yet another request for a 
config that will be used by three people".  I invite others to chime in 
if you agree or disagree with the proposal.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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