Re: [Evolution] how are threads sorted?

[Ross Burton <r burton 180sw com>]

On 25 Jul 2001 10:06:06 +0200, Thomas Emmel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> all the time I am just wondering how the algorithm to build a thread in
> evo works...
> It works mostly realy fine but sometimes there are curious threads like
> (I have to type it, cause I will not add a picture of evo itself ;-)
>
> janne...    - [Evolution] _Very_ strange sizing problem
> jeffrey...    - Re: [Evolution] _Very_ strange sizing problem
> steven...     | - [Evolution] Launching
> peter...      |   |_ Re: [Evolution] Launching
> ritchie...    |   |_ Re: [Evolution] Launching
> den...        |   |_ Re: [Evolution] Launching
> luis...       |_ Re: [Evolution] _Very_ strange sizing problem

I don't know the algorithm as I'm not an Evo developer, but I do know
that sometimes that happens because people reply to an existing message
and then change the subject, so in this example steven might have
replied to jeffrey's mail and changed the subject to "Launching".  Look
at the headers of the messages for the References: field, this is used
to build the thread tree.

Of course, this might just be a bug in the threading code...

Ross
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