285101 - Message threads should take subjects into consideration

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Onkar Shinde]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217

In bug fixing system (or some mailing lists), a user normally edits (add
comments) a bug and mail is sent to all developers. The subject of such replies
is often "Re: <original subject>".
In such cases all such mails should be displayed as a thread.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Messages with subject "Re: <some subject>" doesn't form thread.

Expected Results:  
All messages with "Re: <some subject>" should be displayed as thread even if
they are not actual reply (sent by hitting 'Reply' button) to original mail.

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

Related to bug 141167 (New thread on subject change (threading by subject)).

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I don't understand this bug report -- I *do* see otherwise-unrelated messages 
organized into threads based on the subject, even when some have Re: and some do 
not.

Are you sure you've turned    View | Sort By | Threads   on for that folder?

Comment 3

[Onkar Shinde]

(In reply to comment #2)

Yes I turned View | Sort By | Threading on for that folder.

In my case only messages with same subject group into a thread. An added "Re:"
starts a new thread.

I don't know whether this was working in 1.7.5 Currently I am using 1.8b

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Here's how to help troubleshoot the problem:
Create a new folder.
Copy the messages that won't thread properly into that folder.
Verify that the threading still does not occur in the new folder.
If it does: attach the folder file to this bug (Create New Attachment, above --
give it a MIME type of something like   application/x-mbox   or something more 
appropriate if you know one).
The file will be in your  <profile>\Mail\<account>  directory.

If the messages in the new folder *do* thread properly, try this:
Delete the messages from the new folder
Return to the original folder, and   View | Sort By | Order Received
Now select the same set of messages and copy them to the new folder -- do they 
misthread now?

Comment 5

[Onkar Shinde]

(In reply to comment #4)

This is what I did: I created a new folder and copied messages under
condieration to it.
I have a quite interesting update on this. It seems that threading works
properly only in the default folders i.e. Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Templates &
Trash. It doesn't work properly in other folders.

First threading didn't happen in new folder even after choosing the same from
View | Sort By | Threaded
But then, when I did "Compact this folder" on the new folder, messages got threaded.

I can't attach my folder files here since they are related to inter company
communication. Hope this information is sufficient.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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