223760 - Sort by thread wrongly sort by mail subject instead of mails headers "References"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164115

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Bouillon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031020 Debian/1.5-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031020 Debian/1.5-1

With a large mailbox, mails with same subjects are current ("Hello", No Subject,
...).

The actual threading sort use mail subject to sort messages by thread. It
implies incorrect threading and make this important option of sorting unuseable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send  to you two mail with the same subject
2. Get them and diplay you mailbox sorted by thread.
Actual Results:  
The two mails are diplayed threaded, even if they have nothing to do together.

Expected Results:  
The two mails should be displayed independently because there are no "Reference"
headers.


Some compatibility reasons, it can be an option to activate in "Mail &
Newsgroups" preferences to thread according only be mail header "Reference".

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See discussion in bug 197173.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164115 ***