On Thu, 2021-11-25 at 14:10 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
On Wed, 2021-11-24 at 11:18 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I prefer Evolution to TBird. It lets you fall back to threading by
> Subject if the headers aren't present. I do that and don't see any
> threading issues.
>
> You can also ignore a thread or subthread.
I've never seen a mail client make ignoring threads as easy as Forte
Agent did some 20 years ago. Just press the I hotkey, and the
current
message and all its siblings (now and forever), are marked to be
ignored (then they're either dimmed or hidden, according to your own
preferences). But other responses in the thread are unaffected.
I did like how Agent worked, ignoring a thread did not erroneously
mark
it as read. To me, read means I've read it. When "ignore" is
separate
from "read" I can find unread messages if I need to. It had nice
features for hiding old messages without deleting them, to unclutter
your display (again without erroneously marking them as read). And
for
purging even older messages from your cache, if you wanted to. And
it
was the only client I ever saw that could rewrap quotes, and quotes
of
quotes, without mangling them.
One other thing I like about Evolution (it was my own suggestion,
<modest cough> :-): you can point at a message and show the entire
thread its in, showing both read and unread messages and hiding
everything outside it. Slightly inspired by the "focus" concept in
Emacs.
poc