[Dovecot] Manual thread breaking from Thunderbird

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Christian Jaeger wrote:
> rosenfield.albert at gmail.com wrote:
>> Christian Jaeger wrote:
>>  
>>>  I'm looking for a way to manually break threads apart when independent
>>> threads are mixed up, mostly by users which aren't aware that they 
>>> should
>>> not be replying to existing threads when starting a new one.
>>>     
>>
>> Sounds like a great idea!
>>
>> I'm curious though, how do convince your Thunderbird and Dovecot to
>> work like Gmail and keep everything threaded in the same folder in the
>> first place?
>>   
>
> I'm not sure whether I understand you correctly: are you asking how to 
> turn on threading in Thunderbird? (That would be in the menu View -> 
> Sort by -> Threaded.) But that's Thunderbird's doing, Dovecot isn't 
> really involved afaik, I assume Thunderbird will look at the 
> message-id and in-reply-to headers of the mails.

and References and few other heuristics.

>
> Or are you asking about the Gmail feature of not using subfolders but 
> keep everything in the same place and only use search to find your stuff? 

I guess that's what he means. In short, how to have the same message 
appear in different folder (be them "virtual" or not). and I guess, if 
you delete a message, you no more see it in the said folders.

I believe the right place for this feature is in the MUA (thunderbird) 
to avoid downloading the same message N times.

> (Well, I haven't used Gmail much, one of the reason being that when I 
> tried it I thought how would you keep mailing lists separated sanely? 
> (Without having to create separate custom queries for each of them or 
> so.))
>
> Christian.
>