Hello, On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 09:36:33AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > May please the concerned portions of > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/11/msg00443.html be perused, > as a part of my conversation with Mr. Cater, also quoted below: > > "... There is one problem with this approach, as stated earlier. For the > Mailing list, any change of subject from my Gmail webmail email-server > makes such an email detached from the main thread and treats it as a > different subject.
How email threads are visualised is a matter for your mail reading software, commonly referred to as your Mail User Agent (MUA). This software reads various headers in the email to determine where in a thread that particular message belongs. These headers include "In-Reply-To:" and "References:". That permits the MUA to see the relationship between messages even when the subject line changes, It is only the most inept of MUAs that fail to use these headers and rely only on the Subject: header being the same. It sounds like whatever you are using to read email (your MUA) is not very good. What software are you using for that purpose? You mention Gmail, but as far as I know (I am not a Gmail user myself), Gmail's web interface does do threading properly, so if you were using that I don't think you would have such problems. Are you using Gmail's web interface or some other MUA that talks to Gmail perhaps by IMAP protocol? > Mailman also had(sic) an email editor for > posting messages, that would have been a better option. Your issue has nothing to do with Mailman. The Debian lists don't use Mailman. The Debian lists use MHonArc to generate a web archive of messages (as you linked above) for the convenience of browsing outside of an MUA, search engines, etc. Your issue is not with MHonArc but with whatever software you use to read email. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
