On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:12:19 -0400 (EDT)
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is 
> still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give 
> me a clue as to whats going on here?

Without having a definition of "REALLY screwed up"  I can tell
you this.  Threading in kmail is done based on some ID in the
header - forget which.  This ID has been in the mail RFC's since
dinosaurs roamed the earth.  Many proprietary mailers have a callous
disregard for standards and don't put the message ID in the header.
Even worse, some put their own ID in the header.  Lotus Notes and
Outlook are 2 of the worst offenders that jump to mind.

So, instead of doing things the "right" way, mailers are forced to
have a kludgy threading by subject.  Kmail does not at this time
thread by subject.  It has been "fixed" in the latest dev branches but
is not scheduled until KDE3.2
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57350

On a partially related subject - complaints about kmail should
be sent to http://bugs.kde.org/

-Mark

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