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Just for info, I did get a response to my message to JWZ. I'll
forward it later, but I think he agrees that it should be
reasonable to not try to thread messages which don't use the
Response headers properly (or at all, actually). Unfortunately, I
think there are enough still used mail readers that do this (not
using Response) as witnessed by many mailing list responses that
lose threading in Pan, which I am assuming is threading without
just using Subject:.
I still need to work through the JWZ algorithm in detail to see
if there are other options, as he did point out this problem shows
up in the fallback stuff when there are no References.
On 08/05/2018 12:11 PM, Pawel Salek via
balsa-list wrote:
I think this idea to sort threads by the date of the most
recent message contributing to the thread is a very useful
one, quite a logical one too.
/Pawel
On
08/01/2018 05:04:29 PM Wed, Jack via balsa-list wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Too much idle time, perhaps, but I've been musing on
mailbox sorting. I mostly use JWZ sorting, with increasing
dates. This groups messages per the JWZ algorithm, and then
sorts the groups by the increasing date of the first message
in the group. If I click on the date colulmn header, it
simply reverses the order of presentation of the groups. In
other words, the ordering within groups is not changed, but
now the groups are sorted by the decreasing date of the first
message in the group.
>
> I have several mailboxes (mainly various mailing lists)
where I'd like to maintain the message order within the groups
as above, but sort the groups by the date of the most recent
message in the group - either increasing or decreasing. This
would bring the most recently active threads to the top or
bottom of the list.
A new GitLab issue[0] has been opened to continue the
discussion, and a new branch (thread-date) has a modified sort
algorithm, with threads sorted by the date of the most recent
message in the thread (its 'thread-date'). Testing and
comments welcome!
Peter
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