PowerMail Engineering ([email protected]) on 2009-01-03 6:14 AM said:

>>I'm also confused about how this feature is supposed to work.
>>
>>For me, it's acting as follows:
>> - I select a message with title "foo bar"
>> - I choose 'View Thread'
>> - a new window appears showing messages with "foo" and "bar" in their
>>subject.  Even if not part of the same thread at all.  It also misses
>>some that are part of the thread.
>
>Yes, that is how this feature is implemented (but it searches for
>messages whose subject include the exact phrase "foo bar"). That is not
>perfect, as it will find messages belonging to different threads but
>with the same subject, especially for short subjects like "hello". But
>it should not miss messages of the thread (unless if the subject has
>been changed).

Why did you choose to use the Subject instead of the In-Reply-To,
Message-Id, and similar headers?

Are you on Apple's Cocoa list?  Maybe you can repro the exact case that
I can.  See attached screenshot (which I'll send separately since this
list doesn't allow attachments).

Sean



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