Re: 'notmuch search thread:<>' lists multiple threads

Subject: Re: 'notmuch search thread:<>' lists multiple threads

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:00:12 -0400

To: Naveen N. Rao, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> David Bremner wrote:
>> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>> 
>>> At least some of this mail data is public, but I'm not sure if the bad
>>> threading is reproducible or not; I want to run a complete census
>>> overnight before I reindex.
>>>
>>> Even if the bug is non-deterministic, it probably lives in lib/add-message.cc
>> 
>> I have a reproducible test for this bug now
>> 
>>   http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git?p=notmuch.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/fix/thread-search
>
> Thanks for looking into this.
>
>> 
>> I still need to analyze the mails a bit more, but it looks like at least
>> one of the strange results is caused by multiple mail files sharing the
>> same message-id, but with different References headers (and no
>> In-Reply-To headers).
>
> In my case, I seem to be having the In-Reply-To headers. I end up with 
> two files per message: one from my inbox and one from the gmane archive 
> that I pull in. All the messages from the gmane archive seem to have a 
> re-written 'In-Reply-To' header, but 'Message-Id' and 'References' are 
> the same.
>
> In the problematic email thread, all other files/messages get allotted a 
> single thread except for one of the messages. The offending message has 
> 3 references compared to 1 or 2 references for the rest, but I don't 
> know if that's relevant here.
>

I _think_ this problem has been resolved with 3f4de98e7c8 /
dab32dc70c15, so in releases after 0.32.2.

At least the tests I had previously for it are passing in current
notmuch.
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