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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [Bug 54474] changing subject does not break thread
From:       Yven Johannes Leist <leist () beldesign ! de>
Date:       2003-02-20 10:45:14
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On Wednesday 19 February 2003 23:53, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 February 2003 06:21, Don Sanders wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 February 2003 22:47, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > Actually I thought we were talking about the generation of
> > > In-reply-to and References headers for composed replies and not
> > > about threading received messages. It seems I misunderstood the
> > > original wish.
> >
> > Or perhaps I misunderstood it. Regardless the questions to be
> > considered for the receiving and sending cases are the same. But I
> > would like to concentrate on the receiving case for now.
> >
> > So starting over. I would like to implement subject based threading.
> > I see this task as consisting of two subtasks.
> >
> > 1) Breaking threads when messages have been incorrectly threaded due
> > to 'abuse' of the reply button.
> > 2) Adding to a thread when the mua used to create a message has
> > failed to set the reply-id header field correctly.
> >
> > For the moment I would like to just consider (1).
>
> Please concentrate on (2). After reading all arguments given in this
> thread I have reconsidered my set of conditions and now don't longer
> think that we should try to figure out whether a reply is actually a
> reply or not. It's simply not possible to do so.
>
> If you still want to consider (1) then please add a "break thread"
> action to KMail which can be used to manually reset the replyToIdMD5
> (and possibly also the In-reply-to header).

Just wondering: what would happen to new messages of this "manually broken" 
thread? Would it even be possible to get the threading right in that case 
given that not everybody uses KMail and therefore new messages would still 
have the "old" References and In-Reply-To headers?

Cheers,
Yven

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Yven Johannes Leist - leist@beldesign.de
http://www.leist.beldesign.de
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