[Evolution] Threading by subject questions (still!)

[Pierre Bilodeau]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:33, Thomas Duffy wrote:
> No, but it doesn't always work as expected, like if somebody changes the
> subject line, includes references, then somebody responds to that
> without using in-reply-to or references, it will start a new thread.

This is understandable, hence the question no 3 in my previous post (see
below).

> run gconf-editor.  There is a key in apps->evolution->mail->display.
> turn thread_subject on.

Thanks very much!

> How would you do this?  Do you mean some sort of user intervention would
> be required?  This seems heinous.  MUA's should start following the
> RFC's making this whole issue moot.

Well...  It's the whole point.  I would very much like the thread of my
messages to remain organized, no matter what happens.  So, let's say the
references along with the subject matching take care of 80% of the mail,
matching mail manually would allow me to manually match the remaining
20%.

Now, how would I do it?  I am not sure.  As far as the UI is concerned,
I think the simplest way would be allow the user to drag a message over
another one and have Evolution ask if this action should result in a
thread change (in case the dragging in unintentional).  Then, upon
answering 'yes', the program could assign the "in-reply-to" of the moved
email to match the thread.  In the line of thought, the popup menu of a
single email message could contain the option "Un-thread", in which case
you would remove the "In-reply-to" and "reference".

In fact, I think allowing the user to thread some messages manually
would solve ALL problems about threading.

One more thing...  Correct me if I am wrong, but if someone forwards a
message and then move the sent copy to the same folder as the
originating thread, it starts a new thread.  This is not necessarily
what a user want (I want EVERYTHING related to a thread to remain in the
thread).  By allow manual threading, this is taken care of as well...

Thanks for reading, and hopefully considering the enhancements!

Pierre Bilodeau
BML Consultation Inc