Re: Bug tracker breaks rmail-next-same-subject

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:47:56 -0800
> From: Don Armstrong <address@hidden>
> 
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > The bug tracker modifies the Subject lines, which breaks
> > `rmail-next-same-subject' and `rmail-previous-same-subject'.
> 
> These commands have a fundamental problem; they really should be
> rmail-next-in-thread, rmail-previous-in-thread.

Threads are not guaranteed to exist in mailing lists, AFAIK.

> > I think it's not clean to depend on Subject mangling by specific
> > servers.
> 
> That's why References: and In-Reply-To: exist.

You are evidently assuming that everybody uses MUA that preserve these
headers as they should.  The reality is a bit different.

Anyway, these two commands served me well until now; it sounds a bit
ironic, to say the least, that an Emacs bug tracker would break their
utility.