[sylpheed:37229] Re: Manually grouping unthreaded messages

[Ben Hancock]

Anton Shepelev <anton.txt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, many modern e-mail clients break chaining, and no one cares,
> because those clients are written for typical corporate users who are
> accustomed to the default Outlook configuation, in which outgoing and
> incoming mail is stored in different folders [...]

Indeed. In this case it (unsurprisingly?) appears that the offending
email client is GMail. Given how pervasive Gmail's web client is, I'd be
shocked if others have not come across this as well ...?

> Sylpheed, as any decent client, threads e-mails by the References:
> header

>From what I can tell, it seems the value of the 'References:' header in
the offending messages contains a listof message references,
including those with correctly corresponding Message-Ids. Other messages
that do correctly thread contain similar types of values, so I'm a bit
puzzled there. Does the 'In-Reply-To' header play any role here?

> Apart from that -- complain about the problem in the user community of
> the faulty e-mail client, contact their support, and ask the
> correspondent to ditch the defective software...

I would *love* to encourage more folks to ditch GMail's webmail and try
a real mail program. But alas, I fear it will be an uphill battle ...

Thanks!

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Ben Hancock <ben at benghancock.com>
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