Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"

From	Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"
Date	2023-11-13 12:30 +0100
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Hello,

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 09:36:33AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote:
> May please the concerned portions of
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/11/msg00443.html be perused,
> as a part of my conversation with Mr. Cater, also quoted below:
> 
> "... There is one problem with this approach, as stated earlier. For the
> Mailing list, any change of subject from my Gmail webmail email-server
> makes such an email detached from the main thread and treats it as a
> different subject.

How email threads are visualised is a matter for your mail reading
software, commonly referred to as your Mail User Agent (MUA). This
software reads various headers in the email to determine where in a
thread that particular message belongs. These headers include
"In-Reply-To:" and "References:". That permits the MUA to see the
relationship between messages even when the subject line changes,

It is only the most inept of MUAs that fail to use these headers
and rely only on the Subject: header being the same.

It sounds like whatever you are using to read email (your MUA) is
not very good. What software are you using for that purpose? You
mention Gmail, but as far as I know (I am not a Gmail user myself),
Gmail's web interface does do threading properly, so if you were
using that I don't think you would have such problems.

Are you using Gmail's web interface or some other MUA that talks to
Gmail perhaps by IMAP protocol?

> Mailman also had(sic) an email editor for
> posting messages, that would have been a better option.

Your issue has nothing to do with Mailman. The Debian lists don't
use Mailman. The Debian lists use MHonArc to generate a web archive
of messages (as you linked above) for the convenience of browsing
outside of an MUA, search engines, etc. Your issue is not with
MHonArc but with whatever software you use to read email.

Thanks,
Andy

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Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com> - 2023-11-13 05:30 +0100
  Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com> - 2023-11-13 06:10 +0100
    Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com> - 2023-11-13 16:50 +0100
      Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-11-13 17:30 +0100
      Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-11-13 18:40 +0100
  Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-11-13 10:10 +0100
  Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-11-13 12:30 +0100
    Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2023-11-13 12:50 +0100
      Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-11-13 13:10 +0100
        Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2023-11-13 13:50 +0100
          Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2023-11-13 15:00 +0100
            Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-11-13 15:20 +0100
              Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-11-13 16:40 +0100
              Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2023-11-13 19:00 +0100
                Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-13 22:50 +0100
                Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-11-13 23:00 +0100
                Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Keith Bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2023-11-16 01:30 +0100
              Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-11-14 04:10 +0100
              Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as   mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Charles Kroeger <mbone@gmx.co.uk> - 2023-11-17 10:50 +0100
                Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2023-11-18 18:50 +0100
            Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-11-13 16:30 +0100
          Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-11-14 00:40 +0100
        Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-11-13 14:10 +0100
          Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as  mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443" Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-11-13 15:20 +0100

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