Recent posts and replies missing issues in several GnuCash user threads

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira]

> I have noticed an issue on my computer recently that Gmail is not always
> correctly displaying threads from the GnuCash user maillists.  I have

I'm not a Gmail user but I saw a similar thing happening in other
situations, not now.

a) In case your webmail or email client has the message you want to
   reply to, use "Reply to list/group" (or similar feature), not
   "Reply", nor "Compose new", even if you want to change the "Subject"
   header field.

   By "changing the subject" I mean this scenario: suppose someone
   mentions a thing inside topic A, however the thing is not directly
   related to topic A or is related but in part, so in both cases it
   might deserve to be in topic B instead, so it goes like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
A
  Re: A
    B (was: A)
      Re: B
    Re: A
  Re: A
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

   All these items are examples of literal "Subject" lines, including "B
   (was: A)".

b) If you don't have original message file in your webmail client or in
   your email client, but you know a place where it's archived: see if
   the archiver tells you about the "Message-ID" of the original
   message, or if it gives you a link or a button to reply to the
   message, this link/button must give you a "mailto" URL that should
   have an "In-Reply-To" header field. In both cases, the strange or
   often long thing that is in these fields is what tells both mailing
   list software, email clients, and webmail clients about the
   "identity" of *current* the message (Message-ID) and of the innermost
   parent (In-Reply-To). Without "In-Reply-To" a message that has the
   same "Subject" --- of a supposed parent email --- is actually
   unthreaded.

So in all cases, see if the problematic messages that were already sent
have the "In-Reply-To" header field, a "References" field together with
the other I just mentioned also helps. For those replying to future
messages, be sure to see (a) and (b).

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