jumping to related messages

It would be cool in mutt to be able to jump to related messages.
Anyone know how to do this in mutt? Here's what I mean:

1. Bob sends Alice a message
2. Alice replies
3. Alice navigates to Bob's first message in her Inbox and presses,
for instance, 'CTRL-ALT-J' to jump to her subsequent reply in her
'Sent' folder

Google's Gmail allows this kind of collating by showing all related
emails in a list.

On 16 May 2004 17:23:39 -0700, Adam Monsen wrote:
> It would be cool in mutt to be able to jump to related messages.

I assume by "related" you mean "threaded" as per the MEssage-Id and
In-Reply-To header fields.

If messages are together in a folder, Mutt can sort them by threads, so
they are related visually. I presume you already knew about this.

> 1. Bob sends Alice a message
> 2. Alice replies
> 3. Alice navigates to Bob's first message in her Inbox and presses,
> for instance, 'CTRL-ALT-J' to jump to her subsequent reply in her
> 'Sent' folder

How would Mutt know which folder holds the reply? save-hook and
fcc-hook can both cause the message to go to an essentially arbitrary
folder; and Mutt doesn't even know ahead of time which folders are
available to it.

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Ben Finney <bignose-hates-spam@and-benfinney-does-too.id.au> wrote in message news:<slrncag4kc.21p.bignose-hates-spam@rose.localdomain.fake>...
> On 16 May 2004 17:23:39 -0700, Adam Monsen wrote:
> > It would be cool in mutt to be able to jump to related messages.
>
> I assume by "related" you mean "threaded" as per the MEssage-Id and
> In-Reply-To header fields.
>
> If messages are together in a folder, Mutt can sort them by threads, so
> they are related visually. I presume you already knew about this.

Yep. So, I suppose I could just keep a copy of everything sent and
received in one folder, then turn on threaded view. Bleh! This might
work better if I was using maildir; maybe I could just use links for
the 'total thread view' folder (which is just a collection of "inbox"
and "sent" messages).

> > 1. Bob sends Alice a message
> > 2. Alice replies
> > 3. Alice navigates to Bob's first message in her Inbox and presses,
> > for instance, 'CTRL-ALT-J' to jump to her subsequent reply in her
> > 'Sent' folder
>
> How would Mutt know which folder holds the reply? save-hook and
> fcc-hook can both cause the message to go to an essentially arbitrary
> folder; and Mutt doesn't even know ahead of time which folders are
> available to it.

Hmm. Maybe the 'record' configuration option, or a new option.

Ben Finney <bignose-hates-spam@and-benfinney-does-too.id.au> wrote in message news:<slrncag4kc.21p.bignose-hates-spam@rose.localdomain.fake>...
> On 16 May 2004 17:23:39 -0700, Adam Monsen wrote:
> > It would be cool in mutt to be able to jump to related messages.
>
> I assume by "related" you mean "threaded" as per the MEssage-Id and
> In-Reply-To header fields.
>
> If messages are together in a folder, Mutt can sort them by threads, so
> they are related visually. I presume you already knew about this.

Yep. So, I suppose I could just keep a copy of everything sent and
received in one folder, then turn on threaded view. Bleh! This might
work better if I was using maildir; maybe I could just use links for
the 'total thread view' folder (which is just a collection of "inbox"
and "sent" messages).

> > 1. Bob sends Alice a message
> > 2. Alice replies
> > 3. Alice navigates to Bob's first message in her Inbox and presses,
> > for instance, 'CTRL-ALT-J' to jump to her subsequent reply in her
> > 'Sent' folder
>
> How would Mutt know which folder holds the reply? save-hook and
> fcc-hook can both cause the message to go to an essentially arbitrary
> folder; and Mutt doesn't even know ahead of time which folders are
> available to it.

Hmm. Maybe the 'record' configuration option, or a new option.