On 8/3/07, Joe Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Kai Antweiler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> What mail reader are you using? Maybe it has a configuration option > >> to make it handle replies correctly? > > > > I think gmail is to stupid for this. > > Okay, I've done some reading on gmail. Yes, it doesn't have folders. > > You can get most of the functionality of folders with labels. This > post has the simplest and easiest description of how to do this that > I've seen: > > http://blog.hotpepper.ca/archives/2005/05/gmail-folders/ > > You can search for "gmail folder" to find more discussion of this > gmail problem. > > I highly recommend anyone using gmail who is getting confused by > gmail's threading of messages on the glob2-devel mailing list to make > a glob2-devel label and a filter to (1) automatically apply that label > to all glob2-devel e-mail and (2) make such e-mail skip the inbox. > Then you can see all glob2-devel e-mail together and you won't get > lost.
I already do this, have for several years. "Bradley Arsenault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 8/2/07, Joe Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What mail reader are you using? Maybe it has a configuration option > > to make it handle replies correctly? > > > > Problem is that your replying to the topic and changing the subject with > this > > (was: whatever) stuff, or here with changing the subject completely, but > still > > technically being a reply to the same email. It makes things more > difficult us. > > E-mail which is a reply to another e-mail should be treated as a > reply. E-mail that is not a reply should not be treated as a reply. > There are Internet standards documents that specify how this should be > done with the "References" and "In-Reply-To" e-mail headers. The > "Subject" header is _not_ supposed to be used for figuring out whether > a message is a reply. The "Subject" header of an e-mail message > should reflect its content; if the subject of a reply is different > from the subject of the message it is replying to, then the two > messages should not have the same subject. I can report this to gmail makers, they seem to be prompt with doing requested features. I'm sorry that gmail sucks at dealing with things that are trivial for > other mail readers. > > -- > Joe > > > _______________________________________________ > glob2-devel mailing list > glob2-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel > -- Extra cheese comes at a cost. Bradley Arsenault.
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