Re: when is a reply-eMail succesfully fed into the original forum?

Posted by nnako on Jan 02, 2014; 4:49pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/when-is-a-reply-eMail-succesfully-fed-into-the-original-thread-tp7588961p7588978.html

Hi Pedro,

thanks for your reply.

Pedro <Nabble> wrote

In order to avoid create a new topic, the subjects must be the same. In the other hand, if you use prefixes on your email client you can "add" them on your site overriding the "prefixes" macro.

Here is what I tried:

- varying the subject text and the prefix while keeping an eye on the reply eMail address
- in the macro, there is the following prefixes definition: "re|aw|res|fwd| [some Asian signs] ".

For me, it seems that the reply-eMail-address is the only bit of information which holds the location information for the new message. And the correctness of subject and prefix determine the localization relative to the original message.

Any reply eMail address seems to follow this specification:

ml-node+<FORUMSPEC>n<SPEC1>h<SPEC2>@n3.nabble.com

where there is the following parameter specification

<FORUMSPEC>    specification of forum application (project)
<SPEC1> and <SPEC2>    specification of sub-forum location and leading message

Conclusion after test:

(1) when the reply-eMail-address is correctly used AND the "reply"-subject corresponds to the original subject (possibly modified by the allowed prefixes), then the reply message is added below the original message within the correct sub-forum.

(2) When the reply-eMail-address is correctly used BUT the "reply"-subject or the prefixes do not correspond to the requirements, then the replied message is added into the desired sub-forum but as a new topic.

Would this be a correct description?