Allegedly, on or about 23 November 2013, g sent: > i have a gmail account for other purposes that i pull in emails > from because some of them i want to reply to and save. > > also, i found that as only way to maintain threads. > > your postings thread and i am wondering you would post a new > "Subject:" relating to how you are using a gmail account and > still maintain threading. That doesn't scan so well, especially the last paragraph, trying to understand what you wrote. It doesn't require gmail to get messages threaded. Threading is done by the message headers, each message has its own message ID, each reply has another header saying which message ID it's in reply to, and there's another header listing all the message IDs that belong in the same thread. The last one (in-reply-to) is used by mail clients to group all messages in a thread together. The middle one (references) is used to thread them all together in the right order. Any mail client can do this. Any mail client can break this, and some do, by not not adding in-reply-to headers, and not adding and maintaining the references header. When they do that, they bugger it up for everyone else, as the data has been lost. Message threading is NOT done by whatever text is written in the subject line. Though some broken clients think so. Some helpful clients will try to use it, as well as threading headers, to fit in orphaned messages into a thread (broken by other crappy clients), or to break apart a new thread out of the middle of an existing one (when the subject line changed). The latter not being a particularly good idea, either. To see messages in their properly threaded order, one needs to use a mail client that isn't broken in that regard (Evolution, Thunderbird, and many others work), and pick the option that threads messages in the message list window. Conversely, one can unpick that option, and sort messages via some other criteria - such as by "date," making a mess of the order of messages (hint - the generational order of which message came first, is done by what's a reply to what, not the date that it was read or written, dates are coincidental, not relational). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
