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Authored by: nick on Oct 22, '04 04:55:38AM

...for a big BOOO! towards apple. instead of using the message-id and reference parts in the header to detect treads, they use the subject to do so. this is POOR! POOR, POORER, POOREST. so every once in a while one of the long old threads with one of the standard-subjects pops up to the top of the message-list because you get another mail with a standard-subject. mutt p.e. manages a REAL threaded view of mails for years now. i really like mail.app but this is what bothers me most. i hope apple gets this straight with an update...



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Authored by: jum on Oct 22, '04 05:19:33AM

Well, it must be looking at some headers / IDs as well, since every now and then, a thread in a mailing list contains messages with different subject lines where apparently somebody chose to respond to some message to get the address automatically filled in and changed the subject to start a new thread...
My experience is that Apple Mail seems to do some heuristics to support threading based on subject and/or IDs, since IDs may not be used consistently by all mail clients.



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