Re: [Evolution] Reading emails and threading

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 08:11 -0500, c. marlow wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2022, at 11:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > Emails in threads are separate from each other, so I'm not sure
> > what
> > you mean by that last sentence.
> >
> > poc
>
> I am talking about:
>
> the text above is from you ^
>
> If I hit REPLY TO LIST
>
> My reply will be bundled / attached to the original email.
>
> So  it would like:
>
> Patrick O'Callaghan Re: [Evolution] Reading emails and threading 
>
> Then right below it would be another line that says:
>
> YOU:   Re: [Evolution] Reading emails and threading 
>
> The " YOU" being this very reply from me that  I am typing right now
> would be attached to your reply.
>
> I tried MailSpring and that's what they did.
>
> We stopped at a gas station and got gas and they emailed me the
> receipt. 
>
> Well I forwarded the receipt to my mother and basically mailspring
> attached the forward to the original email.
>
> So this is what I saw:
>
> Sams Club ---- Here's your receipt
> YOU:  FWD: Here's your receipt
>
> I guess that's how threading is supposed to work?

A message thread is a set of related messages. Standard threading as
used by Evolution means that the messages are implicitly linked by
certain headers such as In-Reply-To. Some other mail clients also use
the Subject line as a way of grouping messages, though this isn't
reliable and is deprecated on this list.

Evolution shows threads (optionally) as groups of messages in the
message list, using indentation to show the relationship between them.
See View->Group by Threads (Ctrl-T). It also has some commands to
select a thread or sub-thread, ignore a thread, or show an entire
thread including previous messages (assuming they're still there).

Threading has nothing to do with including quoted messages in replies,
either directly or as attachments. That's something else entirely. You
can do that if you want, but it's not threading.

poc