[CentOS] Adding the [SOLVED] Tag to break threads -- multiple factors

Marko Vojinovic vvmarko at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 17:21:04 UTC 2011


On Thursday 28 July 2011 16:52:07 Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 07/28/2011 04:19 PM, Marc Deop wrote:
> > This discussion makes no sense to me. If the email client is using the
> > subject for threading it is doing something wrong (or you specifically
> > set it that way).
> > 
> > As Ken said, there are headers used to organize the emails.
> 
> the thing is that not all mail clients will set the in-reply-to headers,
> whuch is why clients like thunderbird, evolution and mutt will use the
> subject line as well to thread messages.

So the mail clients that don't set these headers should be fixed, right? I 
mean, fix the broken software rather than try to fix human habits in order to 
keep using broken software.

Best, :-)
Marko




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