Re: [libreoffice-users] Subject lines - another gripe...

On 2011-09-08, Robert Holtzman wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 05:02:12PM +0100, Dave Sergeant wrote:
> > I use Pegasus Mail and view the posts threaded, which by and large 
> > works excellently. No need to quote lots in mails as it is very easy to 
> > locate the original mails.
> >
> > But Pegasus Mail truncates subject lines, as displayed in folder views, 
> > to 35 characters, something that will be changed in a later version of 
> > Pegasus but not for a while yet. Each email on this list is prefixed 
> > with [libreoffice-users] together with various [re:], [fwd:] and other 
> > things. Net result is that there are very few characters left out of 
> > the 35 to accurately thread on, and I get all sorts of totally 
> > different things threaded together.
>
> Messages are not threaded on subject. For a test reply to a message in a
> thread and change the subject line. It should still appear in the
> thread. You will occasionally see someone admonished on a list for
> replying to a threaded message, changing the subject line, and writing
> about an unrelated subject. 

Robert, the issue is that OP's mail client actually does threading based
on subject, instead of relying on threading information.

So if he did that, he would actually see two different threads.

(So, indeed, normal threading does not work this way, but Pegasus'
"threading" does.)

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Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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