Re: Threading of messages

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 03/03/2017 11:13:28 AM Fri, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hi Jack:
>
> On 03/03/2017 10:49:01 AM Fri, Jack wrote:
...
> > I give up trying to understand.  This message immediately showed up correctly threaded.  Maybe it's just me, 
> > but something seems non-deterministic.  It's also possible I'm not paying attention to some relevant detail.  
> > I think perhaps in the previous case, the folder was already open, so the message went to the bottom.  In 
> > this case, it was closed, so got fully threaded when it was openend.
>
> That's likely the reason: the code has to check whether the folder is open, and the intent is to schedule an 
> immediate rethreading when a message is added to an open folder. Apparently the reality is different from the 
> intent!

OK, this is weird--my reply *did* get threaded in, when it was filtered into an open folder! Maybe there's a 
race somewhere--the mailbox code is full of idle callbacks, and perhaps the order in which they're handled 
makes a difference. Sigh...

Peter