Subject: need some testers

From: Joel Boonstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:09:20 -0500 (EST)

Howdy,

Well, Eduardo Chappa has been kind enough to 1) write a patch, and 2)
spend time with me to help see why it's not functioning as expected on my
install of pine.  I'm speaking of the 'fancy threading' patch:

  http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/info/fancy.html

The patch itself has been eliminated as the cause for the problem.  We've
discovered that the thread information returned by my IMAP server doesn't
properly report parent/child relationships, which is causing the messages
not to appear threaded properly.  However, I don't know if it's a failing
in courier-imap (which we're using) to interpret Pine's requests properly,
or a failing in Pine to properly form the request.

So, I'm wondering if anyone out there who uses pine 4.43 to access a
remote IMAP account on a server running courier-imap (any version) could
download a copy of Eduardo's patch, patch pine, and test out the
threading.  I was able to easily demonstrate that threading wasn't
happening properly with a few simple tests (compose a message, reply to a
message or two, compose a new one, reply to some replys), but if you need
messages that I've verified to display the non-threading behavior, I can
provide 'em.

The problem that I was seeing was that none of the messages were assigned
a parent by the server (gdb helped reveal this), so there was no usable
way for the pine to display threads.  If, however, pine was invoked on a
local inbox containing the same messages, threading worked just dandy,
since the server was no longer used to report threads.

FWIW, we have several mutt users, and threading works for them.  However,
I have no idea if mutt implements threads in a similar manner to this
patch.

Thanks in advance!  I'd really like to hear if others with my setup are
able to use this patch.

Joel

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