powermail-discuss Digest #2935 - Monday, January 5, 2009
Re: PM6 "View Thread" problem (minor)
by "Sean McBride" <cwat...@cam.org>
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Subject: Re: PM6 "View Thread" problem (minor)
From: "Sean McBride" <cwat...@cam.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:17:44 -0500
PowerMail Engineering (jer...@ctmdev.com) on 2009-01-03 6:14 AM said:
>>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).
Rebuilding indexes (first 4 checkboxes at option-command launch) fixed
the problem of missing results.
But of course there are still too many results, and results will still
be missing if the subject changes.
I do hope 6.x will use the In-Reply-To header!
Thanks,
Sean
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