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Marcel Tschudin wrote:
> NavList sends new a mail also to the author of a mail. The same mail is now
> first in my sent folder (as always) and enters new somewhat later also my
> inbox folder.

If you don't want them in your inbox, perhaps you can set up a filter in
Gmail to automatically send your own messages to trash.

Many mailing lists have an "echo" setting to choose whether or not you
receive your own messages. I prefer to see mine. Then I can reply if I
notice something wrong or not explained clearly in the original.


> Firefox (or is it the gmail account?) has the helpful feature of collecting
> mails with the same subject in a thread. By adding numbers in the heading
> each mail is now considered a different subject and starts a new thread.

My Thunderbird email program has the same feature and I now have the
same problem as Marcel. When the threading feature works right, a thread
can be expanded with one click to show all the messages, or collapsed to
a single line. This is excellent if one wishes to keep a large thread in
the inbox until the discussion is over.

Actually, Thunderbird relies primarily on the In-Reply-To header to sort
messages into threads. If In-Reply-To is missing, it sorts by Subject.
This is not as good, since any trivial difference, such as "Re:" twice,
starts a new thread.

Two years ago we had In-Reply-To headers in NavList messages:

http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/numbered-messages-Hirose-dec-2010-g14886
http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/numbered-messages-Hirose-dec-2010-g14939

Unfortunately, they disappeared quite a while ago. I haven't complained
since the messages still show up. They're just not as well organized as
those from other discussion groups.

(Incidentally, the second of my two messages above mentions the Reply-To
header. I should have said In-Reply-To. There really is a Reply-To
header, but its function is to supply the address when you reply to an
email.)

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