Closed Bug 441031 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

comment text in In-Reply-To breaks threading

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 180299

People

(Reporter: filterbob, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.14 (20080421)

some mail clients insert extra data in headers, such as:

In-reply-to: Message of "Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:21:12 PDT."
             <xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-1A459742AFE2@xxxxxx.com> 

Even though the message with the supplied message-id appears in the same folder, this message does NOT get threaded to it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. find someone with a MUA which inserts this or other extraneous info
2. attempt a threaded conversation
3. Happens (to me) every time
A) That's not a comment in terms of MIME syntax; the proper definition in the ABNF is "phrase".
B) The production of such In-Reply-To headers is obsolete per rfc 2822, §4.5.4 and §3.6.4, but we can't fix the MUA here (there are worse MUAs, though, that fail to even provide an In-Reply-To header).

Anyways, quicksearch leads me to a small list of five, one of which is bug 180299.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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