Subject: Re: [sup-talk] how to unlink a message from a thread?

From: Erik Quaeghebeur <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:38:05 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Ben Walton wrote:
>
> The other feature that would be really cool is to split a thread.  I
> interact with several people that will start a new email conversation
> by opening an old message, changing subject (and maybe recipients) and
> then sending it.  This preserves the old headers, which sees sup
> append the now disjoint new topic to the old thread.

This, and the even more difficult multi-subject-mails that generate 
different threads (all one big thread by header...). Dealing nicely with 
that would mean that selected messages can be part of different (split) 
threads.

Erik
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From: Pedro F. «pancho» Horrillo <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:35:01 +0200

Hi, fellas!

I have mistakenly used the '#' command to force one message into a
thread.  I want to undo that, but I realized it AFTER quitting sup (so,
it's too late to use the 'u' command).

Is there a way to 'free' a message from a thread?

Thanks a bunch!

Happy hacking,

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From: Pedro F. «pancho» Horrillo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:31:35 +0200

Excerpts from Ben Walton's message of Mon Aug 09 15:52:44 +0200 2010:
> Excerpts from Pedro F. «pancho» Horrillo's message of Mon Aug 09 06:35:01 -0400 2010:
> 
> Lucky for you, forced thread joins aren't preserved across restarts of
> sup...unless this has changed and I didn't notice?  (It's not a
> feature I use, so that is possible.)
> 
Oh, I just checked to be sure, and definitely the link remains.

> Out of curiosity, where do people find the most use for this feature?
> I have a few people out there using braindead mail clients that don't
> preserve enough headers when replying that they end up starting a new
> thread in sup...I might use the thread join if it were persisted.
> 
I use it to join mails that naturally belong in the same “conversation”,
even though they were not posted as actual replies to a given email.
This happens here quite often.

> append the now disjoint new topic to the old thread.
Same here.

> Thanks
> -Ben
Cheers,

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From: Ben Walton <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:52:44 -0400

Thanks
-Ben

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