On 6/4/2011 11:43 AM, Indi wrote:
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 08:11:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:20 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:54:11AM -0500, Dale wrote:
I suspected it was whatever device was being used. Sort of like top
posting. Some people have to top post because the device they are using
won't let them reply any other way.
I just wonder if there is some setting that could be changed somewhere
to make it work correctly with usenet, or whatever you were using.
As soon as Alan said it was me, I thought of the difference between
usenet and email headers and that mail2news gateway. It actually
shouldn't be hard to workaround, but having already worked around a
couple of other issues with it I'm ready to just use the email like
"normal folks" and be done fooling with it. :)
FWIW,
If I set kmail to display just routine ordinary threaded mail there's a lot
less thread breakage. It's not all gone, but it is considerably less.
Setting kmail to display threads based on "activity" - whatever the blazes
that is - breaks things wholesale. I haven't managed to narrow it down at all
so I have no idea what the algorithm is.
Looks like there's more to this than just usernet<->mail gateway brokenness
I'd switch if *mutt* was breaking threading for other people, but I'm
pretty sure it isn't. Now kmail and the other pointy-clicky-html-loving
apps, *those* I don't trust... Tried 'em, found 'em wanting. ;)
It would be good to hear from more people running different MUAs,
but IMO mutt is the Gold Standard and is almost certaily doing what it's
supposed to do.
Whatever you're using is breaking threading in Thunderbird and I can't
think of anyone else lately I've had the problem with. Also mutt has
broken threading in the past and even between different versions of
itself... so calling it a gold standard may be an overstatement.
kashani
