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bug #3421: Mails not sorted into correct thread

Submitted by:  Josh Buhl <jbuhl>
Submitted on:  Fri 02 May 2003 10:01:03 AM UTC  
 
Category: ThreadingSeverity: 1 - Wish
Priority: 1 - LaterItem Group: Undesired Behavior
Status: InvalidPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOpen/Closed: Closed
Operating System: AllPerl Version: All
Component Version: AllFixed Release: N/A

Fri 02 May 2003 05:10:08 PM UTC, comment #1:
[Not a Bug]

This is completely unrelated to bug 372.

Technically, it is not a bug but an issue of how threading
is done by MHonArc. The key message to look at is:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2003/debian-tetex-maint-200304/msg00127.html

It is the data in the message header fields of this message
that is causing the "break" in the message. Take a look at
at the In-Reply-To field. It actually contains a reference
to message
<20030418.084845.74737713.kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> that
is in the thread about Bug 189341 in the debian list
(I've just noticed that savannah tries to auto-link bug
numbers in these messages, but in this case, these #'s
are not applicable to savannah).

MHonArc combines References and In-Reply-To, and it just
happens that In-Reply-To (IRT) is given higher precedence
in determining thread order vs References (see
read_mail_head() routine in mhamain.pl). Hence, the
question becomes, "Which actually has higher precedence?"
I do not think there is a clear-cut answer, and I
think any discussion about it should be moved to
mhonarc-dev.

This bug will be closed and any future discussion should
be done on the mhonarc-dev list since it is really a design
behavioral issue and not a bug.

Earl Hood <ehood>
Project Administrator
Fri 02 May 2003 10:01:03 AM UTC, original submission:

Description by example:
In the Debian Mail Archive for debian-tetex-maint for April 2003, Messages in the thread "#Bug #190721: splitting of texdoctk is hosed" suddenly started getting displayed in thread "Bug #189341: tetex-bin: texdoctk not packaged correctly" although the subject is certainly unambiguous.

Here's a link to the archive:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2003/debian-tetex-maint-200304/threads.html

I guess this could be bug #372, but I have no idea. sorry if it's a duplicate of that bug.

Josh Buhl <jbuhl>

 

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