Recent posts and replies missing issues in several GnuCash user threads

[Adrien Monteleone]

What would really be sweet is for a mail client to offer to allow you to add a message to a thread, or split messages off of a thread. I understand that can be a mess with IDs, but it would just be for your own viewing/use/organization.

So far, I’ve not seen any that can do it. (I think some allow you to add individual messages to a thread, but none allow you to remove a mis-threaded message to its own thread)

My guess would be that the function to accomplish this would have to alter the message-id/in-reply-to headers and possibly for sanity, set special ‘original message-id/in-reply-to’ headers. It could insert special headers for its own use, but then new sent mail might not thread for others into the proper places.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Mar 22, 2018, at 2:18 PM, Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno at hyperbola.info> wrote:
> 
>> 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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