"Jacques" <jacques.noah@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:448cab1a$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Im struggling to list the messages in the order that they were posted.
> I have a treeview component that i'm using to list all the different
> messages, the problem is that i dont know how to identify the
> 'first post' of a group of messages in a thread and then link the replies
> to that post.
You need to use each message's "References" header for that. It is a list
of MessageIDs that a message is in reply to. The deeper a thread goes, the
more IDs are stored in the References.
> Also what role does the: references , msgID and Msgno play in
> structuring these messages.
The MsgNo plays no part in it at all. The References and MessageID headers
do everything.
Gambit
