RE: Evolution Functionality

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From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Saturday, 22 March 2025 at 03:59 UTC+11

To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Evolution Functionality

On Sat, 2025-03-22 at 01:00 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
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.
Threading based on the Subject line is fundamentally broken. Well-run
mailing lists use List-* and In-Reply-To headers to keep things
straight. 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.e. if someone uses Reply-To-All instead of
Reply-To-List then nothing following that reply will have the correct
headers. Evolution has a Group Reply button which tries to Do The Right
Thing whenever possible.

poc
Thunderbird is similar in that for mails I receive from this list the "Reply All" button is replaced by "Reply List", and if by mistake I press "Reply" it expectedly breaks the chain. regards, Steve
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