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From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: Arvid Picciani <aep@exys.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Fix missing References from broken muas.
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On Sat, 08 May 2010 14:36:26 +0200, Arvid Picciani <aep@exys.org> wrote:
> Most of my mail comes from the 50MLs i'm subscribed to. Unfortunately
> some MUAs suck that much, they don't even respond in threads.
> My idea how to fix them would be:

People have previously asked for a feature to combine messages into the
same thread.

And it would actually be a fairly simple operation. Perhaps it could be
something like:

notmuch set-thread $(notmuch search --threads <parent>) <children>

The bigger problem is that as soon as we have an operation to join
threads, people are going to need an operation to split threads. (And
some people want this already for cases where people reply when they
should have composed a new message.)

The split case is harder in that it will require some extra stashing of
information about the intent of the split, (otherwise, the current logic
will recombine things when a future message arrives that References:
messages from two split threads).

So I think we'd need a proposal to handle that before we could do
splitting. The proposal I'm looking for here would be at the database
level, not the command-line level.

=2DCarl

=2D-=20
carl.d.worth@intel.com

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