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Subject: Re: Change Apple Mail or AOL settings for better threads?
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 10:34:46 +0200
Organization: Camembert Normand aus Lait Cru
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On 26.05.25 08:36, Bernd Froehlich wrote:
> On 25. May 2025 at 03:19:24 CEST, "Connor Shannon" <cshannon1898@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi we have a group email and one lady uses AOL Mail and instead of her
>> replies starting with "Re" they start with "Reply" so her msgs don't get
>> included in the thread with every body else's, its like she started a
>> new thread.
>>
>> Is there any setting I can change in Apple Mail to see a "Reply" msg the
>> same as a "Re" msg? Or does any body know of a setting in AOL Mail that
>> we can ask her to change? Email is supposed to use "Re" right?? Thank you.
> 
> Email is supposed to include an "In-Reply-To:" header that should be used
> to build the thread tree. The subject-line should not be necessary for
> threading.

You are right but if I get things correctly AOL is a webbased service
from a very distant past. I simply doubt that she can access the source
code. Perhaps there is a setting where she can make changes to the
reply-function. Who really knows?


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