[Dovecot] Manual thread breaking from Thunderbird

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 19:49 +0200, rosenfield.albert at gmail.com wrote:
> > I haven't used it myself, but ..
> 
> If you're interested in the client part of mailing, perhaps create a
> dummy account,

I've a test account which I've used a couple of times, but haven't
bothered too much with it.

> > Hmm. Wasn't it about showing entire
> > threads of messages in INBOX?
> 
> Yes, or under any other label than "Inbox".
> 
> Also, the messages does not need to have the "Inbox" label to show up
> under Inbox - they can have only the "Sent" label, and they will still
> show up in the thread as long as they're part of it as per
> In-Reply-To: or whatever.

Right.

> > With Dovecot it would be done by:
> >
> >  mailboxes = INBOX "Sent Messages"
> >  search = INTHREAD REFERENCES MAILBOX INBOX
> >
> >  So it matches entire threads of messages in INBOX.
> 
> So if I understand correctly, this will basically tell the IMAP client
> *all* the messages relating to a given conversation, regardless of
> whether they were sent or incoming?

Yes, as long as at least one message in the thread exists in INBOX (the
"MAILBOX INBOX" search term).

> (With the flip-side that software which expects to use different
> folders, eg say a Horde webmail alternative for the account, will stop
> working against this mailbox... Or is this all or none regarding which
> mailbox are affected?)

I'm not sure what you mean. There are still different mailboxes. This
just creates virtual mailboxes on top of the existing ones.

> > INTHREAD would need
> > adding support for INTHREAD extension.
> 
> Ok, what does that do?
> (Apologies for being in learning mode.)

Just makes the search match all messages in a thread if at least one
message in the thread matches the search terms.
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