[Mageia-dev] Bugs mailing list, new bugs Subject line

Fri Mar 4 02:46:08 CET 2011

On 2 March 2011 19:37, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
+> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Ahmad Samir wrote:
+>
+>> On 2 March 2011 12:01, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> > On 2 March 2011 07:28, Yann Ciret <mageia at zamiz.net> wrote:
+>> >> I prefer the actual system with always same subject. It's easier to
+>> >> follow the subject in mail client software. If the subject will change
+>> >> with bug life, I am not sure Thunderbird can group all messages as a
+>> >> conversation.
+>> >
+>> > Indeed. it's annoying for filtering
+>> >
+>>
+>> Actually, no, thunderbird doesn't break the thread of a bug due to
+>> this issue, as it doesn't use just the subject to group emails.
+>
+> Mail clients usually use "In-Reply-To:" or "References:" headers to
+> thread mails. But it seems gmail is also using subjects for this.
+>
+> However according to this, text inside square brackets is ignored :
+> http://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-change-or-add-words-to-the-subject-of-a-Gmail-email-and-keep-it-in-the-same-thread
+>
+> So if we add '[New]' instead of 'New:' in the subject, maybe this would fix
+> the problem with gmail ?
+>
+>
+
+Yeah, that works, dmorgan tested and it works, he's applied the changes.
+
+Thanks a bunch :)
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+