Package: alpine
Version: 2.26+dfsg-3
Followup-For: Bug #923481
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Control: tags -1 + upstream
I found a possible solution!
First…
[X] Expose Hidden Config
… then…
--- [ Normally hidden configuration features ] ---
[ ] New Thread on Blank Subject
Why this is BOTH normally enabled AND hidden is something I’ll never
understand as it completely breaks the normal workflow of “mark the
part of the Subject to keep, ^K a few times until empty, middle-click
to paste the part you wanted to keep” in favour of more DAU friendli‐
ness which EVEN THEN is not usually helpful.
I still consider this a bug, and you’ll want to discuss this upstream.
The documentation of the option says:
FEATURE: New Thread on Blank Subject
When this feature is enabled (the default) Alpine will create a new
thread every time that the subject line becomes empty at any time during
composition.
This behavior is particularly useful in case you are replying to a
message. Replying to a message causes the message to be in the same
thread than the original message that is being replied to. However, many
authors want to create a new message (in a different thread) while
replying to a message, and they do this by changing the full subject, by
first deleting the original subject and typing the new subject of the
current message.
Enabling this feature causes that any time that the subject is deleted,
the message being composed will be considered the first message of a new
thread.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages alpine depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.38-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.21.3-5
ii libkrb5-3 1.21.3-5
ii libldap2 2.6.10+dfsg-1
ii libssl3t64 3.5.1-1
ii libtinfo6 6.5+20250216-2
Versions of packages alpine recommends:
pn alpine-doc <none>
ii sensible-utils 0.0.25
Versions of packages alpine suggests:
pn aspell <none>
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.10.3-2
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