On Sun, 2025-03-23 at 01:36 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > > > I remember in my early days of the internet, Outlook Express was widely > > > despised for breaking threading by not including the necessary headers > > > in the replies to maintain the chain. It just, VERY DUMBLY, grouped > > > messages with same subject, but didn't thread replies with their prior > > > message in any sane order. > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > Threading based on the Subject line is fundamentally broken. Well-run > > mailing lists use List-* and In-Reply-To headers to keep things > > straight. > > And the "references" headers. The in-reply-to headers only associate > one reply to the message it replied to. The references header is > needed to group all the associated messages together. > > > > Yes, I should have remembered those; > > Unfortunately many MUAs either don't respect these or don't encourage > > list users to use them, and once the header chain is broken it can't > > be re-joined > > I'm beginning to wonder how many people actually use a mail program > instead of a webmail interface these days. > Outside of mailing lists such as this one, probably not that many, and those are dominated by the corporate use of Outlook, which is why Evolution supports connections to Exchange (I think Thunderbird does as well). I use the Gmail web interface for a lot of things myself, but I keep Evo for good list handling and sane management of quoting in replies among other things. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
