Using KMail 1.4 in SuSE8/KDE3.0.0 This happens fairly regularly to me. I will be reading through the messages, find someone has asked a question I can answer and reply with the solution. I continue scanning the messages and find that farther down the list, someone has already answered the question I just replied to, but their reply is no longer part of the original thread. What causes some people's replies to become disconnected from the thread? Is this something going wrong at my end or just some wonky way the mail tool that some people have picked decides to handle the mail headers? C.
* Clayton Cornell (c.cornell@chello.nl) [020603 20:47]:
What causes some people's replies to become disconnected from the thread? Is this something going wrong at my end or just some wonky way the mail tool that some people have picked decides to handle the mail headers?
It could be both. The list manager creates threads by matching parts of the subject header and then ordering the mails by message number. You mail client might be trying to thread exclusively by reference headers or something similar and not using the subject information. In theory, using the just references should result in proper threads I think but as long as people keep insisting on using MS Lookout and other mailing list archive destroying software that hasn't learned about the references and in-reply-to headers yet using the subject will probably work best. I'm not familiar with kmail but you may want to experiment with the settings to see if you can thread by just subject and date (in that order). -- -ckm
. It's operator error. Thread info is in the header, and when someone replies unconventionally, threading info is lost. On Monday 03 June 2002 22:49, Clayton Cornell wrote:
Using KMail 1.4 in SuSE8/KDE3.0.0
This happens fairly regularly to me. I will be reading through the messages, find someone has asked a question I can answer and reply with the solution. I continue scanning the messages and find that farther down the list, someone has already answered the question I just replied to, but their reply is no longer part of the original thread.
What causes some people's replies to become disconnected from the thread? Is this something going wrong at my end or just some wonky way the mail tool that some people have picked decides to handle the mail headers?
C.
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