forwarded messages and threads

[Mark Anderson]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:57:42 -0500, Jameson Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> Hey, folks.  I was noticing that if I forward a message, the forwarded
> message and any responses to it don't show up as part of the thread of
> the original message.  It seems to me that this would be useful, to keep
> replies to forwarded messages as part of the original message thread.  I
> think this would be pretty simple to fix, my having
> notmuch-mua-forward-message just add the forwarded message-id to
> "References:" header when forwarding.

I have been wishing this worked, so I'd like it as an option, as to
whether it should ever be a default, that's an entirely different
question.

> What do folks think about this?  Is this suggestion wack, or is this
> something that commonly happens in other mailers but was just an
> oversight in notmuch?

Don't know about other mailers, if I'm not using a strongly
thread-oriented view, I'm not sure if it makes any difference.

-Mark