Stuart Ballard wrote:
> Dan Mosedale wrote:
>
>>Is that what's actually implemented in Mozilla? A certain amount of
>>Mozilla's mail-news code descended from the Netscape 4.x code base, so
>>I wonder if this isn't still the 4.x algorithm rather than the
>>algorithm described on that page. It might be worthwhile to figure
>>that out, and if it is still the 4.x algorithm, file a bug in Bugzilla
>>to get it changed...
>>
>
> *boggle*
>
> From the original roadmap at
> http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-26-Oct-1998.html:
>
> "It has been over five months since I posted to mozilla.general my
> then-current thoughts on the Mozilla browser development schedule. That
> schedule listed only one large feature, mail/news integration, and put
> off enumerating the rest until "later, [...] barring a better idea."
>
> Since then, a lot of great work has been done by all mozilla.org
> developers, fixing warnings and bugs, porting and cleaning up code,
> improving performance, refining downloadable chrome, setting up the
> autoconf build system, etc. But the mail/news code from Netscape never
> arrived."
>
> Netscape never released the 4.x (or even the half-way-to-5.x) mail/news
> code. How can anything in Mozilla be derived from it?
A lot has happened since 10-1998.
The original 4.x mailnews code was never released (because it contained
some proprietary 3rd party code). But what could be salvaged and
brought over to mozilla, has been.
The mailnews UI has completely been re-written. 4.x was written in
platform specific code, like Motif, the mozilla UI is written in XUL.
So none of the UI code was brought over.
But plenty of back end code came over, including some of the threading code.
So, mozilla has similar threading code to what 4.x has. As was
previously pointed out, nsMsgThreadDBView.cpp is the place to start
looking. (sorry, no documents on how the threading code works.)
If you find problems with the threading code, log a bug. To help us
figure out the problem, copy your thread to a local folder and attach
the local folder (it's just a file in the Berkeley mbox format) to the
bug report.
-Seth
-Seth
