replying to mailing list

[Christian Mauderer]

Am 28.04.2018 um 16:53 schrieb Vijay Kumar Banerjee:
> 
>     Hello Vijay,
> 
>     when you first registered, you should have received a mail with a
>     password that you can use here:
> 
>         https://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
>     <https://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel>
> 
>     By the way: It's not 100% correct that you can't reply without breaking
>     a thread. But it involves manipulating mail headers manually to get the
>     correct "In-Reply-To:" and "References:" headers. Basically these should
>     include the "Message-ID:" of the mail you want to reply to.
> 
>     You don't want to do that for your daily communication but it's useful
>     to know these headers in case you want to send a patch to a thread via
>     git. Git knows the command "git send-email --in-reply-to=<some id>"
>     where you can provide a Message-ID.
> 
>     By the way: I did that manual mail manipulation once on another list
>     (not RTEMS) to answer to some mail that has been written before I have
>     been registered. But that's a lot of effort:
> 
>     - You would have to download the "Gzip'd Text" from the archive,
>     - extract the mail that you want to answer to with a text editor,
>     - save that as a .eml file,
>     - import it somehow into your favourite mail client and
>     - than answer to that mail.
> 
>     Like I said: Nothing you want to do for your daily communication ;-)
> 
> It was educative, thanks :)
> I switched to the the single mail mode instead   
> 

Yes. Definitively the better solution.

>  
> 
>     Best regards
> 
>     Christian
> 
> 
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