Re: Gnus wrong message threading

[Kevin Shell <kshell@gmx.com>]

Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

> Kevin writes:
>
>>> Where would you have expected them to be linked, when all that connects
>>> them is the Subject, as they have no In-Reply-To/References?
>
>> How about linked to root message with special marks characters
>
> They are linked to the root message. Isn't the [] vs <> showing that
> they are special?
>
I view with trn-style threads with %B mentioned in my previous mail,
no [] and <> characters.

>> and add two commands/functions like link-threads break-thread and let
>> the user joining the two threads together.
>
> Aren't those commands there already:
>
>  · https://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_39.html#Thread-Commands
>
> ?
>
Found gnus-summary-reparent-thread and gnus-summary-reparent-children
equivalent to link-threads. :-)
But still no break-thread equivalent commands.

>>>> They are web mailers that don't generate In-Reply-To and References
>>>> headers.
>
>>> Really? I'm quite sure that both Gmail and GMX generate In-Reply-To and
>>> Reference headers when you reply to an email.
>>>
>>> If Gmail didn't there would have been an uproar.
>>>
>>> You are right that those two emails do not have In-Reply-To and
>>> Reference headers, but emails from Gmail and GMX usually do.
>>
>> They are mails back in year *2012*.
>
> What is your point?
>
I mean they were old MUAs back in *2012* that don't generate the two headers.


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kevin