Re: [Evolution] how are threads sorted?

[Thomas Emmel <emmel mechanik tu-darmstadt de>]

Am 25 Jul 2001 09:42:21 +0100 schrieb Ross Burton:
> 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.

Yes, but there is no reference-field for the first "Launching" mail
the others are obviously referenced to that mail...

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

Maybe... I will ask louie on thursday in the chat

Btw, anyone who knows how to add a vcard to my mail?

Thomas Emmel