Stays in the tread for me :-)

Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 - Mail version 5.3

Rob.


On 16 okt. 2015, at 13:11, James E Lang wrote:

> This reply is being sent from my Android phone using MailDroid. I don't think 
> it'll break threading except in receiving clients that use the subject for 
> threading like Pegasus Mail for Windows does.
> 
> -- 
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:37
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Tooo many messages on this mailing list?? 
> How to avoid being swamped ...
> 
> Not in mail clients which use the Message-Id and References: headers for 
> threading. They keep replies in threads regardless of the subject line. 
> SeaMonkey (and most likely Thunderbird) do that, as do many others.
> 
> MS Outlook seems to ignore the References: header and uses some sort of 
> heuristic analysis of the subject line, so changing the subject groups 
> messages into a separate conversation. I don't know if any other mail 
> clients do that. Seems like a difficult way of doing things, when there 
> are standard headers for doing precisely that in a reliable way, without 
> unreliably heuristics!
> 
> On the other hand, some replies (including yours, here) appear to me in 
> a separate thread despite having the same subject, because they don't 
> include the References: header. I guess you (and others which do this) 
> are posting using MS Outlook or Live Mail, or perhaps a mobile phone / 
> tablet app.
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
> anne-ology - [email protected] wrote:
>>        well said.
>> 
>>        One thing that bothers me re. this threading,
>>           is that if the subject line is changed in any way, it starts a
>> new thread.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: Tom Davies <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Tooo many messages on this mailing list??
>> How to avoid being swamped ...
>> To: Rob Jasper <[email protected]>
>> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> 
>> 
>> Hi :)
>> +1
>> Most email clients have such threading.  Thunderbird, Claws and Evolution
>> do.  "The Bat!" (for Windows) does.  Gmail is not really an email client as
>> you tend to create a new email address to use it, but it does the
>> conversations/threading thing by default too.
>> 
>> Hotmail (that's an MS one right?) and Microsoft Outlook and Yahoo don't.
>> Well, Yahoo might by now but the Micorosoft ones haven't caught up with the
>> rest of the world yet.
>> 
>> I found that moving from unthreaded to threaded was a HUGE help.  Before
>> that i'd been struggling with every single email!!  A complete nightmare.
>> Now i can see the whole thread/conversation and which issues have already
>> been dealt with and which issues could maybe do with a bit more work.  It's
>> drastically cut the amount of emails i write :))
>> 
>> As with any new system it took me a while to work it out and a little
>> longer to really start benefiting from it.  Much the same as when i took a
>> touch-typing course, initially my speeds plummeted but quite soon after i
>> was really glad i'd made the switch.  When i finally managed to get all my
>> emails being pulled into my GMail account it really "polished off" my
>> migration.  At first i "kept all the email on the server" so they were
>> still in Yahoo and being duplicated in GMail but once i was confident (took
>> me about a week) i switched that around so that they get deleted from Yahoo
>> if they make it into GMail.  I still have my Yahoo account but i rarely
>> ever even sign into it except to change the password and just check.
>> 
>> I'm not saying this to advertise Gmail.  Many, many email systems have this
>> functionality.  The main thing is to move away from total reliance on
>> Microsoft ones by using any of them.
>> 
>> I suspect that a lot of Alexander's problem with this mailing list is that
>> he is still stuck on Hotmail.
>> Regards from
>> Tom :)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 14 October 2015 at 19:00, Rob Jasper <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> reading with my standard iMac email client set to "organize by
>>> Conversation", and this bundels all mails of one thread into one entry,
>> so,
>>> after the discussion tread calmes down (does not pop to the top of my
>>> unread email list anymore) I just delete the whole thing in one go.
>>> I'm sure other mailers have the same functionality.
>>> 
>>> Just my solution, but it works for me :-)
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Rob.
>>> 
>> 
> 
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