Is is just me or in Mystic the keys [ and ] to move forward and back a
message within the same thread, doesn't seem to work?

JF

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Re: Move by thread
By: JF to All on Mon Feb 08 2021 04:28 pm

Is is just me or in Mystic the keys [ and ] to move forward and back a message within the same thread, doesn't seem to work?

Those keys are for moving back and forth in a thread. You can see if there are linked messages with the "refer to" and "see also" on the right side of the header.

I'm not sure message linking and navigation is all that it could be.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 08 Feb 2021 at 03:51p, Al pondered and said...

Those keys are for moving back and forth in a thread. You can see if
there are linked messages with the "refer to" and "see also" on the
right side of the header.

correct, you need linked messages for Mystic to see them and then jump to
them using those keys

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Those keys are for moving back and forth in a thread. You can see if
there are linked messages with the "refer to" and "see also" on the

Well would you look at that! I never noticed those 2 fields before. Well, I think I've figured out what the problem was. If those fields have something
in them (not zero), then the [ and ] keys do work. But more often than not, these fields just have 0 in them. Why would that be? You'd think all messages with a "RE: same subject" would be linked together?

JF

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correct, you need linked messages for Mystic to see them and then jump to them using those keys

Yep, that's what I'm realizing... The question now is: why are some messages linked properly and others not? Maybe it's how people reply to messages, or
how their board is configured?

JF

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Re: Move by thread
By: JF to Al on Tue Feb 09 2021 06:09 am

Well would you look at that! I never noticed those 2 fields before. Well, I think I've figured out what the problem was. If those fields have something in them (not zero), then the [ and ] keys do work. But more often than not, these fields just have 0 in them. Why would that be? You'd think all messages with a "RE: same subject" would be linked together?

Yep, you need to use LinkMessages with mutil. I run that after every toss.

I rarely use threads. I do a new scan and just keep making my way through the messages and rarely ever go back.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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JF wrote (2021-02-09):

@MSGID: 21:1/139 dc5668df
@REPLY: 21:1/101 c2b09712

correct, you need linked messages for Mystic to see them and then
jump to them using those keys

Yep, that's what I'm realizing... The question now is: why are some messages linked properly and others not? Maybe it's how people reply to messages, or how their board is configured?

Message linking relies on the MSGID and REPLY kludge in the mail (I quoted the kludges from your mail). Some older software do not add a MSGID and/or REPLY kludge. It often happens with QWK offline readers. No idea if it is a problem with the reader or the BBS (QWK is weird).

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Yep, you need to use LinkMessages with mutil. I run that after every
toss.

Oohoo, I don't believe this is something I have configured. I'll have look!

JF

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Message linking relies on the MSGID and REPLY kludge in the mail (I
quoted the kludges from your mail). Some older software do not add a
MSGID and/or REPLY kludge. It often happens with QWK offline readers. No

Thanks Oli, I'll have a closer look at those headers!

JF

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