On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark Belanger wrote: > 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 >
Hi Mark, thanks for the info. That definately sheds a lot of light on the matter and probably the very reason why threading in Kmail appears to be screwed up. Based on this information it's not likely a problem with Kmail, but rather due to the messed up nature of the headers in the message itself. -- Mark "If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?" ----------------------------------------------------------- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.1 ICQ# 27816299
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