On Jul 21, 2013, at 19:17 , steve harley wrote: > on 2013-07-21 11:30 Bruce Walker wrote >> Some mail clients are especially stupid and break the In-Reply-To: >> protocol one way or another. > > indeed, i use Thunderbird and i am often torn between proper threading, and > "generous" threading, which brings back in all the replies from people whose > mailers fail to supply proper In-Reply-To or References headers > > currently i'm using generous threading, which means > > View > Sort by > Date | Ascending | Threaded > > plus these custom "advanced" settings: > > mail.strict_threading: false > mail.thread_without_re: true > > there is detailed info here: > > <https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Message_Threading> > > the downside is the generous setting will thread together two messages that > happen to have the same subject (e.g. "test"); also, some people seem to > hand-type their subject lines and often make small mistakes, and these will > always be seen as separate threads
I think one of the problems my email (Apple's Mail) that shows itself as subject line changes within an already established subject threat is caused by folks inspired by something they read in thread 'A', hit reply, then change the subject to 'B' whatever they were inspired to comment on. It is not a calamity, just a mind-jump unexpected, but understood. Joseph McAllister [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
