Thanks and solution to "incorrect starting balance in reconcile."

[Adrien Monteleone]

No need to get all fancy with the in-reply-to coding if you have a mail client installed. Simply click the email link of the person making the post you are replying to on that archive page and your mail client will dutifully create a new blank e-mail with only the mailing list as the recipient(leaving off the actual poster), and the proper subject line.(that’s due to mailman actually setting up that mailto: link properly on the archive web pages) However, no text will be quoted. You’ll have to copy and paste that yourself if desired.

This very reply was in fact made in this fashion rather than clicking the ‘reply-all’ button in my regular mail client.

If you use webmail, things may be more complicated, but most modern browsers allow you to set Gmail or Yahoo as the default mailto: link handler out of the box. For other webmail services, most browsers have extensions that can enable this, just do a search for “setting webmail as default mailto: handler”.  The other caveat to doing this with webmail is you have to be logged in to your account already or it likely might not work properly.


Regards,
Adrien

> Adonay Felipe Nogueira adfeno at hyperbola.info 
> Sat Mar 24 09:46:03 EDT 2018
>  
> If I'm not mistaken, even if you happen to *not have* the original
>   message that caome from this mailing list, you can go to the list's
>   archive and once the message is found, you can do this:
> 
>   1. The email address of the person who wrote the message is actually a
>      "mailto" URL, copy it and take the part between "In-Reply-To=" and
>      the next "&" (if any future "&" exists), or the part between
>      "In-Reply-To=" and the end (if no more "&" exists).
> 
>   2. You have now a percent/URL-encoded "In-Reply-To" field value. Like
>      this:
> 
>      %3CCADYgSbmaLUFqw8D%2BjqWqJTTVxc7TCYaQsks3VGA65W%3DbtJEoWA%40mail.gmail.com%3E
> 
>      "%3C", "%40" and "%3E" are "<", "@" and ">", respectively. Be aware
>      that you will have to watch out and decode other two letters which
>      appear after each percent sigh ("%").