Hello all: How does Mail determine that a message belongs to a specific thread? I don't get a lot of mail and I don't subscribe to the mail from this list. But when I changed to the threaded view it seems to have threaded the messages on the domain name, which could be behavior uncalled for. I wish there was some kind of id, a thread id, by which it could 'thread' incoming and outgoing messages together. The Gmail client seems to do a good job of that. Am I missing something here? If so, I probably just made a fool of myself. :)
Thanks, mani On Apr 6, 3:26 pm, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Robert, Krister, Erik, and Others, > > Erik has used the "View" menu option to select "Organize by thread". > He's talking about information in the Message Viewer table. > > I find that the only high volume mail I get is from this list and from > the viphone list, and if I want to view my mail in unthreaded format, > I can still move up and down the thread in the message viewer if I use > Option+Up Arrow or Option+Down Arrow on my MacBook to move to the next > or previous post in the thread (depends on how you have your messages > sorted in the viewer table -- this is when I sort on "Date Received" > so that the latest messages show up at the top of the table. Another > tip is that if you continue to hold down Option+Up or Down arrow keys > for a bit, you'll move to the top or bottom of the list . That tip > came from Apple's Accessibility team, but it's a general Mac feature. > > The best description of mail features and shortcuts in practical use > that I've found is in the "Take Control of Apple Mail in Leopard" > guide. The updated version of the guide for Snow Leopard is not > available yet. Here's the link to the page for the Leopard guide: > > http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/leopard-apple-mail > > For new users, the "Take Control" series are DRM-free, downloadable > PDF guides that are very reasonably priced (usually $10 or $15 list, > and often discounts are available). On some topics, such as wireless > networking and mail, they include information that I haven't seen > elsewhere. And some guide topics, like how to use the command line in > terminal, just aren't published elsewhere with the same focus. > > I don't remember where I found out about the Option+arrow key > navigation for threads, though. Occasionally I come across keystroke > combinations that I don't recall reading about elsewhere, like using Fn > +Right arrow to move to the Trash when I'm in the Dock, or Fn+Down > arrow to cycle through the sections of the Dock to quickly get to > files and folders in the Dock if I'm at one of the applications, etc. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > > > erik burggraaf wrote: > > Hi, It's always done this on my mac, and it does on my roommate's > > as well. I don't know any one else who uses threading. Most of my > > mac wielding clients don't get enough email to need to worry about > > it. You should get an indicater from mail to show that a message > > has a thread. Unless for some reason the column that shows the > > status isn't checked in mail. > > > Best, > > > Erik Burggraaf > > APlus certified technician and user support consultant > > Call toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > > Visit my all new website:http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > Email: [email protected] > > > On 2010-04-06, at 1:59 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > >> 6 apr 2010 kl. 18.42 skrev erik burggraaf: > > >>> As you read through your mail vo will tell you if a message has a > >>> thread and whether it is expanded or collapsed. > > >> How on Gods green earth do you do to get it to tell you that? I > >> have worked with threaded mail ever since Leopard and it has never > >> told me the message had threads, or am i misunderstanding things? > >> /Krister > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected] > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group > >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en > >> . > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > . > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en > > . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
