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

[Angel Ezquerra]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Martin Geisler <martin at geisler.net> wrote:
> 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

That is too bad because gmail is otherwise pretty nice.

If only we new some people who work at google... :->

Angel