Re: References in forwarded messages

On 2026-08-23 14:09:35 +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Mutt-dev wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> > Date: 2026-08-23 11:09:02+0200
> > From: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
> >
> [...]
> > > 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.
> > 
> > This depends on the forward. Sometimes, one may want to avoid
> > references to the other messages, and sometimes, one wishes to
> > keep the references, e.g. because after a reply, one forgets to
> > put someone in Cc (who may have been part in the current thread),
> > though there's also <resend-message>, depending on the context.
> > I think I would like to have the choice.
> 
> Out of curiosity, by "would like to have the choice" do you mean a
> config?

Yes, it could be a quadoption.

> Another way to "have the choice" would be to change to having the header
> field unconditionally, and then with the edit_headers you could have the
> final choice in the editor, by removing the field in the cases where you
> don't want it.

Even with edit_headers, the "References:" header is not part of the
edited headers. But IIRC, one can add one, though to manually get
the right Messages-IDs for such a header is more complicated than
removing a line from the edited headers (if it had been part of the
edited headers).

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