[kdepim-users] Threaded messages

[ianseeks]

On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 22:08:46 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Saturday 25 February 2012, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On 25/02/12 08:52, ianseeks wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > Can anyone tell me how Kmail decides to put an email in a
> > > conversation thread? Its just that my threads get split up and i
> > > can have more than one thread for the same subject.  I was
> > > wondering if i've configured it wrong in some way.
> > 
> > There is a header line which starts with "References" and that is
> > used for links.  For instance, Andras' reply to you has the line
> > 
> > References: <1415898.YXqSXs4VDM at linux-k5wg>
> > 
> > which links it to your message.
> > 
> > If someone replies from a mailer that doesn't understand or is not
> > set up to handle threading information the new message breaks the
> > thread. Sometimes this results in a second thread which should be
> > part of the first one.  Hope that explains it well enough.
> 
> Almost. :-)
> 
> More precisely, KMail uses the following headers with the following
> precedence for threading:
> 
> In-reply-to (this header contains the message-id of the direct
> predecessor of a message; all sane email clients set this header)

Is there any way for Kmail to flag up the names of the bad clients or flag the 
email with some sort of embedded note to say its from a broken client?


> References (this header contains an ordered list of message-ids of
> several predecessors of a message; this allows KMail to thread messages
> correctly even if some replies in the chain of replies are lost)
> 
> Subject (only if enabled--see Andras's reply--because it might put
> unrelated messages in the same thread; KMail does not put two messages
> with the same Subject into the same thread if they were sent more than a
> certain number of days apart)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
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