224355 - New news message with same subject gets appended to existing thread

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164115

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[bohms]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Firebird/0.6.1+

I'm not sure if this is a Back End or the XUL tree view generation problem, so I
settled on the worst case (Back End).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a new news message with the same subject line as an existing item


Actual Results:  
The message gets appended to the already existing thread

Expected Results:  
A new top-level subject would be created

Comment 1

[bohms]

If this helps, it it case sensitive.
This might be a news server problem, the same bug occurs Outlook Express.

Comment 2

[Stewart Gordon]

If it's the same as in 2003112203 (Mac OS X), and indeed the same as most
newsreaders AIUI, then it merely _displays_ the posts in one thread.  It is not
_posted_ to the same thread, as you can confirm by looking at the source and
noticing that there is no References header.

Is this the behaviour you're experiencing?  If so, you are hereby referred to
bug 164115.  Dupe?

Comment 3

[René Stach]

One more hint: This also happens in TB0.4 for mails. E.g. messages with
 - no subject
 - "Re:" as subject
end up in the same thread regardless what the header line "In-Reply-To:" says. 

Comment 4

[Stewart Gordon]

No response from reporter => dupe

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