On 07-04-2006 17:21:08 +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote:
Timo Sirainen wrote:
I don't really like that either. I don't have the problem with empty subjects, but the same generic subjects are used by different people once in a while, such as "Dovecot".
That's indeed true, but you'd also lose threading from those sucky clients. I don't have any statistics handy but I'd say that it wouldn't matter, though, so yup, my vote goes to completely removing checks for subjects.
This might sound a bit weird, but Mutt for example tackled this problem by having (in threaded mode) a "strict_threaded" flag, that toggles trying to do (some intelligent) subject matching, or only looking at In-Reply-To headers.
I find that almost any email client these days sends proper In-Reply-To headers, and hence, strict threading works fine (and if it doesn't, Mutt of course allows to manually join and break threads). So, I also think subject matching is not necessary any more.
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