Re: References in forwarded messages

On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 10:26:30AM +0100, Ian Collier via Mutt-dev wrote:
> is no clear reason why the References header should not be used.  On the
> other hand, this doesn't benefit the recipient, because they don't have
> the original message (or you wouldn't have needed to forward it).

(For what it's worth, I'm not sure "doesn't benefit the recipient" is so
clear-cut:

The References header often references multiple messages [going back
further in the thread than the specific one being forwarded], and the
forwarded message might have more than one recipient [including via a
mailing list].

So it's seems like there will be many situations where where at least
some of the recipients do have at least some of the referenced messages
already in their mailbox -- and having the forwarded message tie
into the existing thread could be useful to those recipients.)

                                                        Nathan