Re: Ok, why does it do that?

2013-07-23 Thread steve harley
on 2013-07-21 20:52 Joseph McAllister wrote I think one of the problems my email (Apple's Mail) that shows itself as subject line changes within an already established subject threat is caused by folks inspired by something they read in thread 'A', hit reply, then change the subject to 'B' wha

Re: Ok, why does it do that?

2013-07-21 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Jul 21, 2013, at 19:17 , steve harley wrote: > on 2013-07-21 11:30 Bruce Walker wrote >> Some mail clients are especially stupid and break the In-Reply-To: >> protocol one way or another. > > indeed, i use Thunderbird and i am often torn between proper threading, and > "generous" threading, w

Re: Ok, why does it do that?

2013-07-21 Thread steve harley
on 2013-07-21 11:30 Bruce Walker wrote Some mail clients are especially stupid and break the In-Reply-To: protocol one way or another. indeed, i use Thunderbird and i am often torn between proper threading, and "generous" threading, which brings back in all the replies from people whose maile

Re: Ok, why does it do that?

2013-07-21 Thread John Sessoms
Ok, that helped. Reminded me to look at some of the other options & I've switched the folder to a threaded view, although that temporarily made this message disappear for some reason. Plus it was showing two unread messages for the folder, but none in the message pane. Opening the folder in a n

Re: Ok, why does it do that?

2013-07-21 Thread Bruce Walker
Some mail clients are especially stupid and break the In-Reply-To: protocol one way or another. If you examine the full headers of this message there should be a header: In-Reply-To: <51ec1336.1090...@nc.rr.com> that threads this message back to yours. Some mail viewers will try to undo the d

RE: Ok, why does it do that?

2013-07-21 Thread Gerrit Visser
I occasionally get that sorting in Outlook as well. It must be in the header somewhere. I will find a sample and see if I can see what the difference is. Gerrit -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 12:59 PM To: