We just noticed this on http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1751 (roundup 1.4.4
via Debian Lenny).

Digging around a bit, I noticed this roundupdb.py:

            if not inreplyto:
                # Default the reply to the first message
                msgs = self.get(nodeid, 'messages')
                # Assume messages are sorted by increasing message
number here
                if msgs[0] != nodeid:
                    inreplyto = messages.get(msgs[0], 'messageid')
                    if inreplyto:
                        writer.addheader('In-Reply-To', inreplyto)

Could that be the culprit?  It seems like the very first message in an
issue gets this, whereas subsequent messages have correct-looking
in-reply-to headers.

Is it actually bad for messages to be replies to themselves?  Why not
just not have an In-Reply-To header for just cases?

Right, that should be "msgid" there, not "nodeid" (which for clarity
is being changed to "issueid" in the source).

Thanks for the report. Fixed in r4464

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Eric Kow <issues@roundup-tracker.org> wrote:
>
> New submission from Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net>:
>
> We just noticed this on http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1751 (roundup 1.4.4
> via Debian Lenny).
>
> Digging around a bit, I noticed this roundupdb.py:
>
>            if not inreplyto:
>                # Default the reply to the first message
>                msgs = self.get(nodeid, 'messages')
>                # Assume messages are sorted by increasing message
> number here
>                if msgs[0] != nodeid:
>                    inreplyto = messages.get(msgs[0], 'messageid')
>                    if inreplyto:
>                        writer.addheader('In-Reply-To', inreplyto)
>
> Could that be the culprit?  It seems like the very first message in an
> issue gets this, whereas subsequent messages have correct-looking
> in-reply-to headers.
>
> Is it actually bad for messages to be replies to themselves?  Why not
> just not have an In-Reply-To header for just cases?
>
> ----------
> components: Mail interface
> messages: 4029
> nosy: kowey
> severity: normal
> status: new
> title: roundup sends emails w/ same in-reply-to and message-id headers for 1st message attached to issue
> type: behavior
> versions: 1.4
>
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