Re: A feature request (or two)

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

On 11/25/2007 09:28:25 PM, Mark A. Flacy wrote:
> On 2007.11.25 17:56, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > It would be helpful to be able to expand/contract threads on demand 
> 
> > rather than just on open. Second, it would be nice to be able to 
> ask
>  
> > Balsa to re-process a mailbox to accumulate all messages belonging
> to  
> > a thread.
> 
> Um, what are you talking about?  I seem to be able to change 
> threading
> types as well as expand/collapse threads on the fly.  (I'm using one
> of  
> the SVN versions; I'd have to see which one.)
> 
> > Finally (I guess this would be a preference) to be able to indicate 
> 
> > that "Foo"  and "Re: Foo" belong to the same thread.
> 
> Ah yes.  You must get a lot of e-mail from Exchange clients.  Doesn't 
> 
> "JWZ threading" give you what you want?   
> http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html

JWZ threading is definitely better, but not perfect. As to expand/
collapse on the fly, within a mailbox that works per thread, but not 
per mailbox, which would be better. Thanks for the tip.