Re: edit the subject line of a thread?
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 08:45 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> P Kapat wrote in Article
> <[🔎] daef5be80704272149o363d3d14ubab9ef21111a56ef@mail.gmail.com> posted to
> gmane.linux.debian.user:
>
> > I googled around a little bit, and did some simple mailing-replying
> > actions.. It seems like gmail uses "subject" for threading the
> > conversations. Kmail uses something else (i guess, In-Reply-To). Not
> > just that, when you change the subject line when replying to a
> > thread/conversation using gmail, it "removes" the In-Reply-To header;
> > as a consequence any MUA ( i think) will get that messsage wrongly
> > threaded. So, to me it seems like a problem with gmail's mailing
> > system rather than MUA at the reading end... To prove the point
> > (hopefully!), my next mail on this thread (using gmail) will have a
> > modified subject line, check if the In-Reply-To header is removed, or
> > whether it is threaded in a proper way with whichever MUA you use at
> > your end..
>
> I wonder if this is something that Google knows is wrong with GMail or not?
Well GMail *is* in beta, after all! :-)
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