Re: [PATCH] Summary by thread in rmail

[Emanuel Berg]

Andrea Monaco wrote:

>> Still a pity that it guesses its threads by Subject:
>> instead of using In-Reply-To: and References:
>
> I think recognizing threads based on the Subject field is
> correct in most cases. Anyway, that is
> a possible enhancement.

There are problems associated with it as we have seen even in
this thread (sorry :P) ...

So it is obvious the discussion can go both ways ...

But if you find a good name for it - maybe use the word
"subject" in the command is enough - and also say something to
this end in the docstring that it isn't the other method that
some people maybe would expect otherwise ... 

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