It decides based on message-id's, references and in-reply-to headers. the screenshot doesn't help
threading by subject means that if multiple messages have the same subject, that they get "grouped" together in a thread. this is useful for broken mailers that don't properly set the in-reply-to and/or references headers. Jeff On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 21:57, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 10:52, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > You mean "Thread By Subject" that people complained about in 1.0.x and > > made me remove it? :-) > > Not sure, I have attached a screenshot to show what I mean (hope you > don't mind) > > Look at the mails from Blair (highlighted red) compared to the ones from > this thread. > > I am using 1.1.99 and dont know what you mean by "Thread By Subject" but > apart from the mails from Blair I like the way evo threads mail in a > folder with replies linked to the actuall message they replied to. > > How does evolution currently decide on what meassage to link a thread > to? > > > > -- > > * > * Rob Brown-Bayliss > * -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
