From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: How to keep the In-Reply-To field in a patch with formail? Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 23:10:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87bn7ktg67.fsf@elephly.net> References: <56bf6578.hEfSMKsx31o1XAwz%pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> <20160213172246.GA19669@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52636) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUiOy-00037L-7G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:10:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUiOt-0000tm-6k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:10:52 -0500 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:25151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUiOs-0000tc-Q8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:10:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <20160213172246.GA19669@thebird.nl> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Pjotr Prins writes: > Anyone know how to reating the In-Reply-To field when using formail? > > cat mail.patch|formail -s mail -t -f -I "In-Reply-To: <20160213102825.GA19194@debian>" > Ignoring header field "Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:07:31 +0100" > Ignoring header field "In-Reply-To: <20160213102825.GA19194@debian>" > > How you you keep patches on the same thread? I haven’t used “formail” before, but when generating emails with an external programme I usually don’t allow it to send the email directly. Instead I load it up in Emacs message-mode and manually add an In-Reply-To header. Not sure if this helps you. ~~ Ricardo