[Zope-dev] Mail and zope

[Matt Hamilton]

> originated from but most e-mail clients discard custom headers but preserve
> a 'In-Reply-To' header with the original message-id.

Don't count on it! :)  I spent quite some time working on a full-text
mailing list search/archive system and one of the things I wanted to do
was preserve thread informtion.  However it was surprising the number of
MUAs that did not generate a In-Reply-To header.  Mostly it was Microsoft
Mail Client and quite a few similar internal mail systems with internet
gateways.  Also beware that many mailers use the NNTP standard of
References: instead of in-reply-to.  I would suggest using the Subject
line instead and generate some sort of ticket number and store it in the
subject line, and put a header in the message body instructing the user to
not alter the subject. 

-Matt

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