On 28 September 2010 15:50, Ahmad Samir <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 September 2010 14:59, Gustavo Ariel Giampaoli > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> As told you many time, please use a proper mail client and stop breaking >>> threads every time you send a message >> >> I've seeing the comments about breaking threads. >> >> I check all my mail with web GMail and the thread never breaks. All >> comments from André are in the same thread. >> >> Cheers! >> >> >> >> tavillo1980 >> > > Gmail doesn't do proper message threading like other email clients who > do it properly e.g. thunderbird or evolution.
Sorry, s/who/which/ . > > A constant problem I had with emails from the bugs mailing list was > gmail splitting the same bug report-related emails into two different > threads (really conversation is a more appropriate word here) after a > keyword is changed e.g. adding NEEDINFO to the report. Thunderbird > would group messages based on email headers so it go it'd get it > right. > > Quoting from http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=5900 : > “Please note that a conversation will break off into a new thread if > the subject line of the conversation is changed, or if the > conversation reaches over 100 messages.” > > IIUC, any email client that does proper threading changing the subject > line wouldn't break the thread. > > Of course this has an upside, when the thread is broken for other > clients, gmail just works as it's taking the simple/stupid approach of > grouping messages that have the same subject line (that is IIUC :)). > > -- > Ahmad Samir > -- Ahmad Samir
