Re: Occasional threading related need

Hi Peter,

Yes, that does exactly the right thing.  I'm not sure how I missed it,  
since I seem to remember being the one who pointed out the issue with  
JWZ threading that prompted the change.

Jack

On 2020.02.27 20:49, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hi Jack,
> 
> Have you tried Mailbox:Properties:Merge threads with the same  
> subject? It enables the subject-merge phase of JWZ threading.
> 
> The option is a little misleading; if there's a message with a given  
> subject "stuff", any message with subject "Re: stuff" is threaded  
> beneath it. But other messages with subject "stuff" are not. At  
> least, that's the way I read the code :-)
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 02/27/2020 06:55:34 PM Thu, Jack via balsa-list wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> Not surprisingly, I'm on several mailing lists, and because of the  
>> variety of email software out there, I often get a reply to a  
>> previous message, which does not thread.   The last few I've looked  
>> at turned out to be that way because the person replied to a  
>> digest.  He did a great job of editing down to only what he was  
>> replying to - but obviously the References: and In-reply-to: headers  
>> referenced the digest email, not the actual message he was replying  
>> to.
>> 
>> In the past, I have actually manually edited the email file to  
>> insert appropriate References: and In-reply-to: headers, but that is  
>> obviously subject to error.  Oddly, if I look at the list archives,  
>> all messages are correctly threaded.
>> 
>> Has anyone else noticed this, and are there any ideas on getting the  
>> threading "correct" in Balsa?  I don't think Balsa is doing anything  
>> wrong, I think the proper headers are not present, although the  
>> mailing list (pipermail, in this case?) seems to recognize the  
>> "References:" header as the digest, and so perhaps just threads by  
>> Subject?
>> 
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>> 
>> Jack