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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Tracking one-off threads with lei
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Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Eric:
> 
> Is there a way to "tag" a single thread that isn't matching a saved search and
> have it be followed for any new updates? E.g. someone pings a developer on IRC
> and says "you may be interested in following this discussion" -- what's the
> best course of action for them to pull that into their MFOLDER and get all the
> new updates?

-t includes every message in the thread strictly (same with mairix):

	lei q -t -o $MFOLDER mid:$MSGID

For a fuzzy subject match (like /t/ and /T/ in WWW), add ` OR s:"..." '

	lei q -t -o $MFOLDER mid:$MSGID OR s:"subject phrase"

And the usual: lei up $MFOLDER