[JDEV] is there a tracking id parameter?

[Justin Karneges]

You might use <thread>, though not all clients support it yet (notably, Psi 
does not).  However there is no excuse for not supporting it, as it is part 
of xmpp-im, so you should not be afraid to use it.

-Justin

On Monday 10 November 2003 12:13 am, John Luxford wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm wondering if there is a field I can pass with messages which will
> be returned by clients, for the purpose of associating messages with
> one another on a system that doesn't implement jabber but merely
> integrates with it.  For example (email example):
>
> My system might send a message with a subject line that is prefixed
> with "[msg543]" then when the reply is to the system's address, the
> subject line would be "Re: [msg543] subject line..." which could be
> interpreted by the system to associate the response with message #543
> which would only make sense to the internal message storage system.
> (Just like an email mailing list subject line).
>
> I thought to do this with a Jabber subject line, but the subject seems
> to be ignored (if displayed at all) by most clients.  I also checked
> the specs as well as JEPs, but couldn't find what I'm looking/hoping
> for.  Any advice/pointers/info would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lux