On May 7, 2008, at 5:59 PM, Bill Cole wrote:
At 1:41 PM +0200 5/7/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Christian Jaeger wrote:I'm looking for a way to manually break threads apart when independent threads are mixed up, mostly by users which aren't aware that they shouldnot be replying to existing threads when starting a new one.Sounds like a great idea!The IMAP extension that supports threading (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-imapext-sort-20 ) has no support for clients 'breaking' threads.
Thunderbird and most other clients don't use server-side threading, so this doesn't matter there.
I suppose one could also try to define a new IMAP threading extension or to convince Mark Crispin to make radical changes to the one he's been working on (and implementing in UW-IMAP) for 8 years, but I suspect that those approaches would be high-effort and low- yield.
The existing THREAD=REFERENCES can't be changed, but new ones can be added. Dovecot v1.2 will have THREAD=X-REFERENCES2 which I'll probably try to get standardized.
It would be possible to make a new threading algorithm that started a new thread if a message had e.g. "newthread" keyword. But I don't really see it being worth the trouble.
I'm curious though, how do convince your Thunderbird and Dovecot towork like Gmail and keep everything threaded in the same folder in thefirst place?
Virtual mailboxes would do that trick. Dovecot v1.2 will have support for that, although many clients also support it already.
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