Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

[Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 01 November 2008 13:26:33 Rajko M. wrote:
> On Friday 31 October 2008 06:40:41 pm Philipp Thomas wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:59:31 -0400, you wrote:
> > > That's why I read on-line using GMail.  It's threaded and easy to keep
> > > up.  Except when someone's mail throws in a RE: and it splits to a
> > > seperate thread.  I think that I see this as 4 threads now.
> >
> > Then gmail is only doing poor man's threading, i.e. threading by
> > subject. Real threading uses the Message-ID and In-Reply-To which
> > allows reply trees. But I just looked at the header of your mail and
> > both are set correctly, so the reason these mails start different
> > mails is that those mails were created on MUAs that ignore the
> > existence of In-Reply-To. Foremost among them is MS Outlook which  in
> > more then ten years hasn't learnt to handle it.
> >
> > Philipp
>
> 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