On Wed, Jan 23 2019, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Wed 2019-01-23 08:29:05 -0700, Nicolas Bock wrote: > >> Sometimes during a lengthy discussion someone inadvertently >> breaks the email thread because their mail client doesn't get >> it. Is there a way to merge the two fragmented threads again >> with notmuch? > > there's a manual way to do it as a janky workaround: > > * create a bogus e-mail message that References: a message-id > from each > split faction. > > * inject that message into your notmuch message store > > * delete that message Nice trick :) Would this also work if I modified the reference of the first email that breaks the thread to point to the email it is quoting? I would have to get notmuch to re-read that email though to update the database. But this approach would not involve first creating a fake message and then deleting it again :) > See also the thread on this maiing list with Subject "thread merge/split > proposal" from back in 2016, starting at > id:87mvp9uwi4.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net though i don't think any of > that has been implemented. > > --dkg _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch