On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 08:50 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2008-05-09, 20:45 GMT, Dinbandhu wrote: > > oops. sorry about that. Usually I delete the "Re:" but forgot > > to this time. That is what you are referring to, right? > > No, it isn't -- every email has its Message-ID header. Good email > programs (which includes probably all Linux email clients, > including Evolution, of course) are able to use these to show > threads of the email messages. The way it is done with some less > capable email clients used in other operating systems -- where > threads are built according to Subjects -- is bad, because there > is nothing wrong with changing Subject in the middle of the > thread, actually it is even a good idea, when the discussion > slides to be something very different from the original post. > > Morever, starting new thread by writing new mail, which has > nothing to do with the previous thread (there is nothing wrong > with copying email list address to the clipboard from the > previous message, and creating new email with that), is that your > email will be on the top level in email clients. If you file your > question on fifteenth level as a reply to the > hundred-and-fiftieth message in the thread, your message will end > buried somewhere deep in all clients, and quite likely it will be > ignored. If you write a new message with well designed subject > line, it will be on the top level in email clients and everybody > will see it.
Thank you, that does make it quite clear. Swarup _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
