On Wed, 17 Mar 2021, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:53:58 +0000 (GMT)
> Jim Jackson <jj@???> wrote:
>
> > for the record alpine is broken in that area. As far as I can make
> > out it just uses the subject line to "thread" emails (modulo the
> > various "re:"s etc)
>
>
> It's a while ago that I used (al)pine (in fact, it was still pine back
> then, IIRC in combination with fetchmail). Nevertheless, I'd bet that
> you can make alpine sort threads by the "References" header. Just out
> of curiosity, I did a quick websearch and found the following document:
>
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/doc/alpine-doc/tech-notes/config.html#show-sort


well well well. Many thanks for that. And I thought I knew my way around
alpine :-(

As they say: Familiarity breeds contempt!


>
> libre Gr??e,
> Florian
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