Qt-interest Archive, November 2007
Re: Replying to emails and threaded displays
Message 1 in thread
Hi,
Tony Rietwyk wrote:
> When you say the emails are in a "threaded display", how does the display
> know which thread the emails belong to?
>
> Why does replying to an existing message and changing the subject not
> cause a different thread to be started? I always do this, as it saves me
> having to tell Outlook to store the message in this mailing list's folder.
Because messages contain special headers about threading (from the top of my
head: In-Reply-To or something like that). Each message has a unique ID, so
if you reference that ID in that reply-to header, you build up threading.
If you change the subject, this header is not automatically removed as
well. Just the subject is not enough for threading of course, if only
because the Re: is often not repeated.
So please: create really new messages from now on; just changing the subject
is NOT enough.
> Also I note that this list has not been fixed to automatically reply to
> the list, rather than the sender. Should I raise this as an issue at
> TrollTech
No, that is an old discussion, and decent mailclients handle this correctly.
Each message has a header that indicates the mailing list. Most mail
clients use that appropriately.
Regards,
Andre
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