OT: e-mail reply to old/archived message (was Re: Encoding questions (continuation))

[Andreas Perstinger]

On 10.06.2013 15:56, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote:
> Τη Δευτέρα, 10 Ιουνίου 2013 2:41:07 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Steven
> D'Aprano έγραψε:
>> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:13:00 +0300, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote:
>>> ps. i tried to post a reply to the thread i opend via thunderbird
>>> mail client, but not as a reply to somne other reply but as  new
>>> mail send to python list. because of that a new thread will be
>>> opened. How can i tell thunderbird to reply to the original
>>> thread and not start a new one?
>> By replying to an email in that thread.
>
> Yes thats obvious. What is not obvious is how you reply back to a
> thread by giving extra info when you are not replying to a mail formt
> tha thread or when you ahve deleted the reply for a member
>
> sending the mail to python-list at python.org will just open anew
> subject intead of replyign to an opened thread.

You would need to find out the Message-Id of the post you want to reply 
to and then add manually the In-Reply-To and References headers to your 
e-mail using that Id.

It's probably easier to just use the web interface at Gmane.

Bye, Andreas