Thanks Remy,
It all works fine now.
"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message
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> "Jacques" <jacques.noah@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>> 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
