GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 777988
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Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:28:30 UTC
A mail I sent (Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:23:24) appears below the reply (Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:23:07) I got to it. Geary should use the headers Message-ID and In-Reply-To (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.4), if available, to order mails correctly. The Date header isn't reliable enough.
Hmm, this is a good idea, thanks for the suggestion.
This comment from Bug 713319 might be worth looking into: > Updated by Tiago Quelhas 11 months ago > > JWZ's algorithm [1] is worth taking a look for this, as it is the _de facto_ > message threading algorithm for MUAs. It threads primarily based on References > /In-Reply-To headers, but also includes a fallback heuristic based on subject > lines. Obviously, Geary doesn't really need to know the nesting order of > messages within a conversation, so the full algorithm isn't required; but we > could use the part concerned with identifying which messages belong to the > same conversation. > > [1] http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html
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