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An example: My server sends notification emails to the company automatically. Everyone is using gmail to view their emails. When there is an update about a pre
by jon_richards 9y ago
An example: My server sends notification emails to the company automatically. Everyone is using gmail to view their emails.
When there is an update about a previous notification, I send an email with the in-reply-to header. Oh wait, gmail doesn't use that.
Alright, I'll just make sure that the subject line is exactly the same as the original notification (as gmail says to do). This works for a bit, but if someone hits reply-all, suddenly the subject line for the thread is now "Re: <the original subject>" and my followups no longer thread.
I'll just make sure that my followups always have "Re: " in them, so they thread whether or not people have been communicating on the thread. This mostly works, but if the update is a week or two later, gmail just decides they shouldn't thread.
This is on top of the fact that emails with similar subject lines occasionally thread together. This gets really annoying when you send automated emails where the subjects are the same except for an identifier of some sort (specifically to prevent threading).
And there's no way to give feedback to gmail about this. No way to forcefully thread or de-thread emails. You are just given the choice of gmail's threading or no threading at all.
- iforgotpassword 9y agoJust don't use the web front end, access them using your favorite mail client using IMAP. Oh wait, google fucked that up too. Luckily most clients worked around the google bullshit over the years.
- thinkloop 9y agoGood points - so federated email works so well because most of us decided to federate to a single server. Something sad about that.
- walshemj 9y agoWell you just need to start using a real MUA like outlook or thunderbird and drop gmail
- andybak 9y agoI dropped both of those in favour of Gmail (and now Inbox) years ago much to my delight. What am I missing?
- andybak 9y agoI very rarely have problems with the threading in Gmail. It seems to handle re: and fwd: correctly nearly all the time. Some automated emails get threaded together when I'd prefer them separately (error notifications and other alerts) but it's minor enough that I've never even looked into whether there's a workaround.
- jimktrains2 9y agoI believe Gmail will thread when the message I'd and/or references reference each other. (Otherwise it's hit or miss, like you said.) https://cr.yp.to/immhf/thread.html https://cr.yp.to/immhf/thread.html
- digi_owl 9y agoMore and more i find myself wondering when it was we allowed Google to take over control of the net...