Matthias Schmidt ([email protected]) on 2009-01-04 4:32 AM said: >>>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? > >I'd ask the same question .... >It shouldn't be too difficult to implement this as a fixed search for >those headers.
I'll add that the way it is done currently makes it not very useful. My Cocoa-dev folder has 116000 messages. Many message subjects are similar. Viewing by thread is important precisely in those situations where you have many many similar messages that you are trying to sort out. Sean
