Chambers wrote:
> Unfortunately, Thunderbird is showing this message as a reply to a
> thread from 2000.
> 
> Does someone know how to make it thread replies by message ID, and not
> by topic name?
> 
> ...Chambers

Okay, this is only safe if you like editing the user.js file. There are
two seperate issues with how T-bird threads. One is that it puts
everything with Re: <title> as a reply to the earliest thread named
<title>. The other is that it ignores references. So, add the following
to your 'user.js' file. Normal path to that file is C:\Documents and
Settings\<username>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<random
letters and numbers>.default\user.js on windows.


# Stop threading messages together if they simply have the same subject
# (none of the messages start with "Re:")
user_pref("mail.thread_without_re", false);
# Only thread by reference headers, ignore subject
user_pref("mail.strict_threading", true);

Got that info from a thunderbird wiki that I forgot to bookmark, so I
can't quote the source and google isn't being helpful in tracking it down.

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Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> # Stop threading messages together if they simply have the same subject
> # (none of the messages start with "Re:")
> user_pref("mail.thread_without_re", false);
> # Only thread by reference headers, ignore subject
> user_pref("mail.strict_threading", true);

Thanks.  Hopefully this will fix the problem (although it doesn't appear 
to fix messages that are already downoaded).

Note that, if you don't want to bother with the user.js file, you can 
choose Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Config Editor to get a list of 
all the options that *could* go in the user.js file, and edit them there.

...Chambers

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