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

[Pedro F. «pancho» Horrillo <phorrillo@aurigae.com>]

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:
> 
> > Is there a way to 'free' a message from a thread?
> 
> 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.

> 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.
> 
Same here.

> Thanks
> -Ben
> 
Cheers,

-- 
Pedro F. «pancho» Horrillo
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