[Geany-devel] How to recognize threads on mail (Re: Script: Generate loadable tag files for Geany)

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 00:09:32 +0200
Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> Just check for the In-Reply-To and References header inside mails.
> This is taken as date to identify a thread in most cases.
> Filtering/Sorting only be Subject is a real bad idea. 
> 
Hmm, I'm still missing something. If threads are indeed sorted
In-Reply-To and References, but additionally the subject line is
checked, is it still a bad thing? Why? For example, for same
In-Reply-To and References but different subjects, I would find it
reasonable to have to different threads. 
Liviu