[PATCH 1 of 2 V2] patchbomb: includes series information in the header

[Augie Fackler]

On May 6, 2014, at 6:44 PM, Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> I'd be neat if this could be done in such a way that regular email
>>> clients (including gmail) were able to consider the whole series as a
>>> single thread. Isn't there any standard header that can be used for
>>> that (or in addition to these proposed new headers)?
>> 
>> 
>> all email in the series -already- contains a in-reply-to header pointing
>> to the first email of the series. This has been the case for age and should
>> be enough for any descent email client to thread them.
>> 
> 
> In that case it seems that gmail is not really a decent email client :-/

Yup. Gmail notably ignores the in-reply-to header (see jwz's authoritative document http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html), which the rest of the universe actually understands and uses.

Gmail will *only* thread messages together if the subjects are substantially similar. I have no idea why this is the case.

Honestly: for patch review I use mail.app or mutt, and never gmail. mbsync+mutt works pretty well overall. Thunderbird is okay too, but I don't know how to get patches out of it.
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