hmmm.. I took a look and you can group messages in outlook by "conversation" which seems to use in-reply-to to have a normal thread view
-----Original Message----- From: JD Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2004-01-30 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mail thread headers (was Re: source resolving in 2.2) Outlook 2000 *does* I was getting frustrated I was not getting any replies to a post i made... I was lazy and just hit reply to an existing message to get the address and wiped out the original text. This thread made me look.. and it does send "in-Reply-to" JD -----Original Message----- From: Unico Hommes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2004-01-30 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mail thread headers (was Re: source resolving in 2.2) Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > Geoff Howard wrote: > > > Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > > >> Unico Hommes wrote: > > > <snip/> > > >>>> BTW, Unico, I don't know what is your mail software, but > it doesn't > >>>> send the "In-Reply-To" header, which breaks thread views > in Mozilla > >>>> and makes following discussions highly difficult. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> I use Outlook. I checked the thread view in Thunderbird but it > >>> wasn't a problem there. What client are you using? I may > rise to the > >>> opportunity to finally exorcise The Evil Empire from > controlling my > >>> inbox ;-) > >> > >> > >> Read carefully: "...which breaks thread views in _Mozilla_..." ;-) > >> > >> Are other people experiencing this also? > > > > > > Yes, but I was very interested to hear they may have this solved in > > Thunderbird. I recently happened to look into what headers > were being > > sent by mozilla and outlook and did think it looked like > something a > > reader could solve... > > > Actually, Unico is not the only one. What I've found is that > Mozilla uses the In-Reply-To header whereas Outlook (at least > some version) uses "Thread-Topic" and "Thread-Index". > > Outlook's headers seem strange to me, as I don't know how a > mailer can rebuild a thread tree with just an indentifier for > the thread, but no information about the posts relationships. > Outlook doesn't maintain post relationships. The 'thread view' in Outlook just consists of a long list of mails of the same thread, then sorted by date. It is less verbose but - at least if the thread is not too long - sufficient. Unico
