Re: Balsa's thread handling very buggy.

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 07/17/2003, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> On 2003.07.15 16:54, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
[ snip ]
>> Try unchecking `Settings => Preferences => Misc => Delete  
>> immdediately', and uncheck `Hide deleted' on the same page.  If the  
>> parent is left in the view but marked as deleted, nothing else  
>> changes.
> 
> Okay, that is a workaround, but only works in one session.

If it works in only one session, you've uncovered another bug! Settings  
are supposed to be saved and restored between sessions.

[ snip ]
> Well, mutt does it fine, and so do most newsreaders ... a thread is  
> handled as a group. Among threadgroups, you sort by the earliest or  
> latest messagedate in that group. In the thread itself, it's simply  
> thread sort order. If the parent is missing, sort messages on the  
> same 'level' on date again. (substitute 'date' for whatever is being  
> sorted on). Yes, this can change sorting order, but at least all  
> messages remain part of the single thread. That is my main problem,  
> the fact that the thread is broken into multiple threads spread all  
> over the mailbox ...

The only time I see subthreads `spread all over the mailbox' is when I  
delete the head of the thread. If the thread is:

a
 b
  c
 d
  e

and I delete b, I get:

a
 c
 d
  e

...still a single thread--is this not what you get?

Peter