Yes, I remember the discussion. Their threading such as it is would be more useful if you could choose to see only unread mail. However, I chose PowerMail for a reason and I'm really not trying to fix Apple's mail app! [insert smiley here]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 9/23/04 said >I've mentioned this before, but I had some long discussions with the >developers of Apple's Mail application when I was working at Apple. They >mentioned to me that they don't have true threading, and this is because >not every mail application puts threading information in the header >(which makes since since there isn't any RFC standard for it in email). >They use a combination of subject, date, and server data to try and sort >out the message threading. They don't consider it 100% reliable. I'll >have to go back and see if I can find my old messages on this subject >because they included some additional details. > >Wayne > >-----Original Message----- >From: Barbara Needham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 23, 2004 1:08 PM >To: PowerMail Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Improvement wishes for next release > > >You can accomplish pretty much the same thing as Apple Mail app's >threading by sorting by subject; it is still not true threading like MacSoup. > >But true threading would be a great addition to PowerMail. > > >
