On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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). Thanks for taking time to explain this, I am re-reading to fully grasp it. -- 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
