Freron MailMate

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  benny November 5th, 2015 @ 10:27 AM

  • State changed from “new” to “duplicate”

  If it's only listed in References then I assume it's because it's not really the parent message. Note that MailMate only has a very strict threading mode in which it only shows parent-child relationships. A more liberal mode (just grouping related messages) is often requested (#548) and hopefully I'll get around to implementing it at some point.

  (MailMate does look at “References” if no “In-Reply-To” header exists, but if it does exist then it is assumed to be correct.)

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  Antti Honkela November 5th, 2015 @ 11:24 AM

  Thanks for the clarification!

  The problem I have with this mode is the following. Assume three messages:
  1. outsider -> me
  2. me -> outsider
  3. outsider -> me
  where each of these is a reply to the previous one. Typically I would only have 1 and 3 in the same mailbox while 2 would be in Sent Messages. With the current threading model, MailMate breaks 1 and 3 to separate threads.

  I don't mind if you only have a parent-child model, but what I would like is that MailMate could use the "References" header to bridge over gaps in the graph. It would not seem impossible to add an option that would link messages to the latest one appearing in references if there is no match for "In-Reply-To" in the current mailbox. I am not even asking making this the default, but an option.

  Antti

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  benny November 5th, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

  Yes, this is the most common problem with strict threading. I'll note to check to see if this is an easy variation of the current strict threading. Might be a good stop-gap solution until a relaxed group threading mode is available.