On splitting threads - Was: Re: Combining threads

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> writes:

> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:57:21 -0800, Scott Henson <scott at foolishpride.org> wrote:
>> Sometimes I get email from people with broken email clients that seem to
>> break threading.  I remember that sup had a method of combining two threads
>> into one.  Does notmuch have a similar feature?  Is it even possible to
>> force it to glue two threads together and treat them as one?
>

>> The bigger problem is that as soon as we have an operation to join
>> threads, people are going to need an operation to split threads. (And
>> some people want this already for cases where people reply when they
>> should have composed a new message.)
>>

Also in the context of
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688699, I should say I'd
welcome a thread split feature for such cases too.

FWIW, hope this helps.

Best regards,
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Olivier BERGER 
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