---- Reported by geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-07-08 11:17:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 7211
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7211
Searchable id: yorba-bug-7211
Original author: Andrea Corbellini
Original description:

For reasons I will never understand, some Italian webmail providers use "R:"
instead of "Re:" for replies and do not include In-Reply-To headers.

This means two things:

1. messages of the same conversation are non grouped correctly;

2. if I don't take action, the subject soon becomes "Re: R: Re: R: Re: R:
...".

So far, I have never found an email client that handles "R:" correctly (except
Gmail, which groups conversations but still prepends "Re:" when replying).
Geary perhaps could be the first client to solve this annoying problem.

Related issues:
related to geary - 5096: Geary sometimes fails to group related messages
into a si... (Open)



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-09-17 15:53:00 -0700 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Andrea Corbellini 5 months ago

  * **Description** updated (diff)

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#2

Updated by Jim Nelson 5 months ago

  * **Category** set to _engine_

If they don't use `In-Reply-To`, then they must supply a `References` field
for Geary to organize them into a conversation. Can you verify that is the
case?

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#3

Updated by Andrea Corbellini 5 months ago

  * **File** geary-message-0X4TZW.txt added

There's no such field. By the way, I'm attaching the full headers from a
message I received recently.

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#4

Updated by Jim Nelson 5 months ago

  * **Tracker** changed from _Bug_ to _Bite-sized_
  * **Target version** set to _0.4.0_

That's ... unfortunate. It means Geary will need improved heuristics (#5096)
to take a reply from this mail service and add it to the right conversation.

We might be able to fix the "R:" problem fairly easily, however, so I'll mark
this as a bite-sized for 0.4. The larger problem of In-Reply-To will have to
wait for #5096.

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#5

Updated by Jim Nelson 3 months ago

  * **Keywords** set to _string-change_

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#6

Updated by Jim Nelson 2 months ago

  * **Target version** changed from _0.4.0_ to _0.5.0_



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:21 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 7211 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7211
Imported an attachment (id=260748)

Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. 
   Setting to default milestone for this product, "---".
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Resolution set on an open status.
   Dropping resolution