MBOX-Line: From dave at cridland.net  Wed Dec 20 00:37:14 2006
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:38 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] REFERENCES2 threading
In-Reply-To: <1166586540.22214.282.camel@hurina>
References: <1166586540.22214.282.camel@hurina>
Message-ID: <15222.1166603835.091995@peirce.dave.cridland.net>

On Wed Dec 20 03:49:00 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> There are two annoying things with the standard REFERENCES 
> threading:
> 
> 1. I think base subject merging is nowadays more annoying than it is
> helpful. Pretty much all the clients generate References headers
> properly.
> 
> 2. Root nodes should be sorted by the newest message in the thread, 
> not
> by the root node's date. The new messages should be easily found, 
> not
> lost somewhere among old messages.
> 
> I've now implemented these as X-REFERENCES2 to Dovecot. Is anyone 
> else
> interested in getting this standardized?
> 
> 
I think what you're describing is close to the REFS algorithm found 
in Arnt Gulbrandsen's INTHREAD draft (which, I might add, would be 
very useful to me as a client developer).

Dave.
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