From: Olivier Berger Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:08:24 +0000 (+0200) Subject: On splitting threads - Was: Re: Combining threads X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b77f6178e544a475a81e3287722f4993847043e;p=notmuch-archives.git On splitting threads - Was: Re: Combining threads --- diff --git a/39/46f545eb37e9941958358c8e182b96f1fba758 b/39/46f545eb37e9941958358c8e182b96f1fba758 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e94a54b8e --- /dev/null +++ b/39/46f545eb37e9941958358c8e182b96f1fba758 @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE75A431FC0 + for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:10:00 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id yXdBw66qzt4W for ; + Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:10:00 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F064431FAF + for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:10:00 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) + (envelope-from ) id 1TGXhz-0002wG-FB + for notmuch@notmuchmail.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:10:03 +0200 +Received: from bauxite.int-evry.fr ([157.159.110.64]) + by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) + id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 + for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:10:03 +0200 +Received: from olivier.berger by bauxite.int-evry.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 + (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 + for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:10:03 +0200 +X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ +To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +From: Olivier Berger +Subject: On splitting threads - Was: Re: Combining threads +Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:08:24 +0200 +Lines: 29 +Message-ID: <87pq5aqe4n.fsf_-_@inf-8657.int-evry.fr> +References: + <87mxpe81t9.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> +Mime-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org +X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bauxite.int-evry.fr +User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) +Cancel-Lock: sha1:w1lc8gQqoXZnm5Rq9Q7gA2I1ymU= +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +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: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:10:01 -0000 + +Hi. + +Carl Worth writes: + +> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:57:21 -0800, Scott Henson wrote: +>> Sometimes I get email from people with broken email clients that seem to +>> break threading. I remember that sup had a method of combining two threads +>> into one. Does notmuch have a similar feature? Is it even possible to +>> force it to glue two threads together and treat them as one? +> + +>> 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.) +>> + +Also in the context of +http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688699, I should say I'd +welcome a thread split feature for such cases too. + +FWIW, hope this helps. + +Best regards, +-- +Olivier BERGER +http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 +Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF +Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) +