There was a thread concerning exactly this issue. It is due to a bug
in Gmail. When I send a regular email Gmail *sometimes* screws up
figuring out that it should be added to the end of an existing thread.
I only send an email when I also want to send an attachment.
Why? Gmail's web interface lets you attach files. At least it does here.
Most
times this does not happen, but success and failure are totally
unpredictable. I would have thought Google Gmail staff would be adept
enough to have already fixed this obvious bug when email originates
from a Thunderbird client.
[...]
The problem isn't that google is messing up it just that you are
sending a new email with the same title instead of replying to the
original message. So as far as the world is concerned you have sent a
brand new email that is not part of the original message thread since
the heading data in your email doesn't contain the reply header from
the previous message(s).
That does seem to be what's happening. But whatever it is, it would
be good if Ray (and the occasional other who seem to have this
thread-cloning issue) could resolve the problem. It's unnecessarily
hard to keep track of the conversation when threads are split and
multiplied like this.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
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On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Cody Precord <codyprecord@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ray Pasco <pascor22234@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem isn't that google is messing up it just that you are
> sending a new email with the same title instead of replying to the
> original message. So as far as the world is concerned you have sent a
> brand new email that is not part of the original message thread since
> the heading data in your email doesn't contain the reply header from
> the previous message(s).
>
> Cody
You are mistaken. I have always made sure I used identical Subject
titles.
That does seem to be what's happening. But whatever it is, it would
be good if Ray (and the occasional other who seem to have this
thread-cloning issue) could resolve the problem. It's unnecessarily
hard to keep track of the conversation when threads are split and
multiplied like this.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
I have replied in a separate thread that in the future all thread
replies I make with attached files will be sent with Gmail rather than
Thunderbird. The problem is that Gmail does not always properly parse
email message header info from Thunderbird.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Ray Pasco <pascor22234@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem isn't that google is messing up it just that you are
> sending a new email with the same title instead of replying to the
> original message. So as far as the world is concerned you have sent a
> brand new email that is not part of the original message thread since
> the heading data in your email doesn't contain the reply header from
> the previous message(s).
>
> Cody
You are mistaken. I have always made sure I used identical Subject
titles.
The subject title of the of the email is non-consequential and has
nothing to do with this problem. Its the internal header data of the
email message (i.e the routing information that you do not see and
cannot edit) that is different because you are creating a new message
instead of replying to the original.
As has already been mentioned (not just now but also the last time this was brought up in response to your thread-breaking messages) threading in mail folders or other message repositories is not done simply by matching subject lines. It usually just looks at the "In-Reply-To:" header of the mail message, which contains a unique ID of the message being replied to. (Do a Ctrl-U in Thunderbird to see the raw message with all of its headers.) Using In-Reply-To is the standard for threading mail and news messages. In some cases the subject lines are also matched, but IME that is the exception, not the rule.
Also, that header is typically not carried forward when replying to digest messages (although I haven't checked Google Groups digest to see how they do digests) so it would be best to subscribe for individual messages if you want to be able to reply to them. You can have your mail client filter them to a folder that you only look at once per day if you don't want to be bothered by the individual messages throughout the day.
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On 10/8/10 9:33 AM, Ray Pasco wrote:
The problem isn't that google is messing up it just that you are
sending a new email with the same title instead of replying to the
original message. So as far as the world is concerned you have sent a
brand new email that is not part of the original message thread since
the heading data in your email doesn't contain the reply header from
the previous message(s).
Cody
You are mistaken. I have always made sure I used identical Subject
titles.