[GNC] Anyone noticing an issue with list messages 'un-threading'?

[Adrien Monteleone]

I’m still investigating. I don’t think the e-mail provider is an issue because that isn’t a common denominator for the senders. And it seems people confirming this so far are also on separate providers. I’m banking on either user-caused or perhaps an issue with mailman. I wonder if there was a config change or update to the list server recently.

It appears to be happening with more than one user’s replies, but it might all be a result of their reply workflow. (so they coincidentally are following the same pattern that breaks threads) What is odd, is even looking at a single user, it doesn’t always happen. Maybe their workflow is not consistent. Regardless, the subject lines aren’t changed so our clients should not be breaking them up anyway unless the ‘in-reply-to’ header is getting mangled by mailman or the replier’s workflow.

I also am curious to try to follow the actual reply-flow in the archive and see if they are broken there as well. (which might indicate a mailman problem) At least for one thread, all replies appear nested in the archive under the original post, but they may not be nested past the first level properly.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 7, 2020 w2d7, at 3:24 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am seeing this too (using gmail) and it is rather annoying.  I
> assumed it was a list issue, but do you think it is particular users
> that are causing it?
> 
> Colin
> 
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 19:11, Adrien Monteleone
> <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Starting in late December I noticed almost every subject is coming in as separate threads at some point.
>> 
>> An initial post is made, then a reply or two appears, then a subsequent reply appears as a separate ‘conversation’, which might have a reply or more, and then it splits off again. For some longer threads, this can happen several times.
>> 
>> I’m curious if anyone else is seeing this behavior or if it might just be my mail client acting up. (MacOS Mail.app)
>> 
>> This isn’t a case of getting a direct-addressed reply instead of the one from the list. That happens on occasion, but even then Mail.app was threading by subject. Each of the split conversations are all coming from the list address.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien