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

[Martin Geisler]

Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> writes:

> El 07/05/2014 00:41, "Pierre-Yves David" <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org>
> escribió:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 05/06/2014 03:32 PM, Angel Ezquerra 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 :-/

That has unfortunately been established some time ago. In addition to
ignoring standard headers for threading, the way it applies quoting to
inline replies is broken:

  http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2009-December/017681.html

-- 
Martin Geisler

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