Re: Getting the right root mail of the thread

Subject: Re: Getting the right root mail of the thread

Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 14:12:52 -0600

To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Felipe Contreras


On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> On 11/02/2013 09:08 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>
>> Either way this doesn't make any sense to me. Each thread has a single
>> origin
>> mail, why would anybody would like to show a message other than that while
>> displaying the summary of the tread? Even more, why isn't there an option
>> to
>> fetch that information easily?
>
>
> It's entirely possible to make a message that has a References: header that
> includes message IDs from two different threads.

Right, there could be two or more roots. But we don't get either in
the summary, we can only get the first or the last one.

I say the summary should contain the earliest root, always. Or at
least have an option to get it.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

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