From: David Mazieres Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 23:57:15 +0000 (+1700) Subject: Breaking a really long thread X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e6ba5676851b64e8ee6e416b8cbd785287c8ed47;p=notmuch-archives.git Breaking a really long thread --- diff --git a/f5/b18a2ce60099f88fd982c312627edce9fce000 b/f5/b18a2ce60099f88fd982c312627edce9fce000 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..62ee15705 --- /dev/null +++ b/f5/b18a2ce60099f88fd982c312627edce9fce000 @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +Return-Path: + +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B52A6DE0243 + for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2016 16:57:29 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -2.042 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.042 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.269, + RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id zkYgsX08-D1v for ; + Fri, 1 Apr 2016 16:57:21 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from market.scs.stanford.edu (market.scs.stanford.edu [171.66.3.10]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 733DA6DE00DF + for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2016 16:57:21 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from market.scs.stanford.edu (localhost.scs.stanford.edu + [127.0.0.1]) by market.scs.stanford.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id + u31NvLCD021647 for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2016 16:57:21 -0700 + (PDT) +Received: (from dm@localhost) + by market.scs.stanford.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id u31NvK4q028619; + Fri, 1 Apr 2016 16:57:20 -0700 (PDT) +X-Authentication-Warning: market.scs.stanford.edu: dm set sender to + return-47vxc4r2jvrzgwfkqykqai3hj2@ta.scs.stanford.edu using -f +From: David Mazieres +To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Breaking a really long thread +References: <1459015043-8460-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> +Reply-To: David Mazieres expires 2016-06-30 PDT + +Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 16:57:15 -0700 +Message-ID: <87twjkopb8.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 23:57:29 -0000 + +For some reason, Google voice always includes a header of the form +"References: <+15555555555.@txt.google.com>" (where the 5s are my actual +phone number) when I get a text. The result is that every SMS I've ever +received is in a single thread containing many thousands of messages. +And of course huge threads are annoyingly slow to open, particularly to +read a single 140-character message. + +Is there any way to break an existing thread (so as to start over with a +smaller thread), or otherwise to tweak the threading rules so that a +particular References header gets ignored. It's annoyingly slow to open +a thread with 10,000 messages just to read one SMS. I'm almost tempted +to mangle the messages on delivery and remove the References header +before notmuch sees them, but it would be nice to have a cleaner +solution, as there are other situations in which one might want to +"reset" a really long thread. + +Thanks, +David