On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Piyush P Kurur <ppk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 05:57:02PM +0800, Auguste Pop wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> by gmail, do you mean the gmail web interface or the gmail mail >> service? > > The threading is done by the mail client and has nothing to do with the > mail protocol SMTP/IMAP etc. > >> i am using the web interface, and has the behavior you depicted for >> gmail. if i use a "real" and "proper" mail client, would it be >> better? > > So in this case the mistake is that of gmail webclient. Because: > > Have a discussion with someone on say "Bugs in the code". Now if your > mailer justs looks at subjects to thread then two different mails with > subjects "Bugs in the code" (and their subsequent replies) will be > clubbed which is clearly undesirable. > > A real mailer a la mutt for example will thread mails based of > message id's and this will solve this otherwise problem of mind > reading. What is assumed is a bit of consideration from the replier. A > new message should be started as a new message not as a reply to an > old message with a changed subject. > > Regards > > ppk > thank you for the explanation. i noticed some inconsistency between my mail inbox and the mailing list's archive. i now know the reason. :-D
