match incoming mail In-Reply-To against existing messages...

...when no issue id is specified in the Subject

Author: Richard Jones

CHANGES.txt

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ are given with the most recent entry first.
 Feature:
 - full timezone support (sf patch 1465296)
 - handle connection loss when responding to web requests
+- match incoming mail In-Reply-To against existing messages when no issue
+  id is specified in the Subject
 - added StringHTMLProperty wrapped() method to wrap long lines in issue
   display
 

roundup/mailgw.py

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class node. Any parts of other types are each stored in separate files
 an exception, the original message is bounced back to the sender with the
 explanatory message given in the exception.
 
-$Id: mailgw.py,v 1.175 2006-04-06 06:01:35 a1s Exp $
+$Id: mailgw.py,v 1.176 2006-08-03 00:50:06 richard Exp $
 """
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext'
 
@@ -716,6 +716,13 @@ def handle_message(self, message):
         else:
             nodeid = m.group('nodeid')
 
+        # try in-reply-to to match the message if there's no nodeid
+        inreplyto = message.getheader('in-reply-to') or ''
+        if nodeid is None and inreplyto:
+            l = self.db.getclass('msg').stringFind(inreplyto=inreplyto)
+            if l:
+                nodeid = l[0]
+
         # title is optional too
         title = m.group('title')
         if title:
@@ -930,7 +937,6 @@ def handle_message(self, message):
         # handle message-id and in-reply-to
         #
         messageid = message.getheader('message-id')
-        inreplyto = message.getheader('in-reply-to') or ''
         # generate a messageid if there isn't one
         if not messageid:
             messageid = "<%s.%s.%s%s@%s>"%(time.time(), random.random(),