> On 01/02/2024 03:49 EET wakod67943--- via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > > > To preface, I’m using the Crossbox mail client hosted by MXroute. I was > directed to Dovecot support when I made my inquiry to the former’s developers. > > Apparently, when you write an email subject that is verbatim to another, > previously sent email, the two become linked in a conversation thread. > > I could have an email from 1996 titled “Groceries” and if I make one today > titled “Groceries” my inbox would have them connected as one long thread. I’m > getting email threads in the 100s because of this. > > Crossbox people have told me it’s not something they have control over. They > mentioned it being a Dovecot problem. Has anyone encountered this? > > It would be tremendously inconvenient to ensure that every email I ever send > from now on has a unique subject so to as not have them threaded together. > Let me be clear, email threading and conversation views are extremely useful. > I just want them to be…relevant to the chain of emails that are being looked > at. > > Is there a way to group threads by unique header information? It is becoming > borderline unusable to sift through invoices.
You could take a look at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5256 which explains two threading algoritms, ORDEREDSUBJECT and REFERENCES. ORDEREDSUBJECT is probably what you are using now, and REFERENCES is the one you'd want to use? Aki _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org
