[OS X TeX] Please do not use Reply-To unless it's really a reply

[Matthias Damm]

Am 18.11.2004 um 16:55 schrieb Bruno Voisin:

> Please, when posting to this list, do not use your mailer's Reply-To 
> button unless you're really posting a reply to a previous message. 
> Otherwise, this messes up the way OS X Mail organizes messages in 
> threads.

Thanks for pointing this out!

> This is a limitation of OS X Mail, obviously (I've not tested the same 
> in Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail yet), but for the moment we have to 
> live with it.

No, it is not a limitation -- Mail simply uses the only possible way 
threading can be done with emails: It is the purpose of the 
In-reply-to: header to provide information on how threads are 
organized.

If Mail only used the Subject: to find out which messages belong to one 
thread, there were other problems: Quite often the subject is changed 
willingly or unwillingly, and Mail would end up with messages belonging 
together separated into many threads.
(Perhaps such a mechanism would work in this list with almost anybody 
using Mac clients which seem to behave very standards-conform, but 
experiences from other lists with many Windows users show that 
oragnizing threads by subject does not have any chance to work here...)

A real limitation of Mail.app is that it cannot draw a tree of 
messages, i.e. it cannot show which messages are direct replies to 
others. But I am hoping for Tiger here...

Best,
Matthias

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