Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1338 mails)

[Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 01 November 2008 17:43:24 John Andersen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Rajko M. <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Saturday 01 November 2008 06:13:39 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Saturday 01 November 2008 13:26:33 Rajko M. wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > > It is something with KMail.
> > > > Turn threading off and on and it threads messages again, but I have no
> > > > idea where to start looking.
> > >
> > > I'm having the same problem on this OpenSUSE laptop, and have never seen
> > > it on other distros, so it may be a package bug.
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > Could be.
> > Some patch skipped?
>
> Kmail has in many releases, (perhaps also in KDE4) an option under
> the Folder main menu check boxes for Thread messages and
> Thread messages also by Subject.
>
> The latter was designed to fix broken  threading caused by non-compliant
> emailers (mostly Microsoft) which did  not return References headers on
> replys. That caused thread splitting.
>
> There are just enough people reading this list with broken emailers to
> split any thread to which they reply.
No, that is definitely not the reason.  If it were you would not be able to 
fix it by disabling threading then re-enabling it.  Something is definitely 
wrong, and it's wrong in the SUSE package.

Anne