[Alpine-info] renaming of sent-mail when it's on IMAP server

[Barry Landy]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Matt Ackeret wrote:


:>On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Carl R. Brune wrote:

:>> One of the features of pine/alpine I've always appreciated is the automatic

:>> renaming of the sent-mail mbox folder every month. I'm presently contemplating

:>

:>I am purposely not renaming the subject of this email.

:>

:>I realize this may seem like a trivial whine to some people, but I have seen

:>it a few times lately.



:>

:>*PLEASE* don't reply to an existing message and change the subject to 

:>try to create a "new" topic.  For those of us who use threaded email, now

:>both discussions and their replies are all mixed together.  The message I am

:>responding to was created by replying to the "[Alpine-info] Installing Alpine

:>w/ Maildir patch" thread and changing the subject.


STRONGLY SECONDED. Caused me real confusion.


:>

:>(You could claim that email clients should "do what I mean" and break up

:>"threads" this way, but that would in some cases be wrong, because sometimes

:>people respond to one specific part -- slightly tangential perhaps -- of a

:>discussion and change the subject appropriately.  So IMHO such thread breaking

:>up should be done at the user's request, or automatically with an 'un-break'

:>capability.)

:>

:>Thanks.

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