From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: 'notmuch search thread:<>' lists multiple threads
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:00:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl17i4lv.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1524045467.a0aq8zermb.naveen@linux.ibm.com>
"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> David Bremner wrote:
>> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>>
>>> At least some of this mail data is public, but I'm not sure if the bad
>>> threading is reproducible or not; I want to run a complete census
>>> overnight before I reindex.
>>>
>>> Even if the bug is non-deterministic, it probably lives in lib/add-message.cc
>>
>> I have a reproducible test for this bug now
>>
>> http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git?p=notmuch.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/fix/thread-search
>
> Thanks for looking into this.
>
>>
>> I still need to analyze the mails a bit more, but it looks like at least
>> one of the strange results is caused by multiple mail files sharing the
>> same message-id, but with different References headers (and no
>> In-Reply-To headers).
>
> In my case, I seem to be having the In-Reply-To headers. I end up with
> two files per message: one from my inbox and one from the gmane archive
> that I pull in. All the messages from the gmane archive seem to have a
> re-written 'In-Reply-To' header, but 'Message-Id' and 'References' are
> the same.
>
> In the problematic email thread, all other files/messages get allotted a
> single thread except for one of the messages. The offending message has
> 3 references compared to 1 or 2 references for the rest, but I don't
> know if that's relevant here.
>
I _think_ this problem has been resolved with 3f4de98e7c8 /
dab32dc70c15, so in releases after 0.32.2.
At least the tests I had previously for it are passing in current
notmuch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-23 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-06 9:46 'notmuch search thread:<>' lists multiple threads Naveen N. Rao
2018-04-06 10:23 ` Naveen N. Rao
2018-04-08 3:04 ` David Bremner
2018-04-09 11:54 ` David Bremner
2018-04-10 1:45 ` [PATCH] devel: add new tool to draw thread structure David Bremner
2018-10-08 3:30 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2018-04-18 10:18 ` 'notmuch search thread:<>' lists multiple threads Naveen N. Rao
2018-04-22 0:45 ` David Bremner
2018-06-28 10:36 ` Naveen N. Rao
2018-06-30 13:42 ` David Bremner
2018-08-30 12:52 ` David Bremner
2018-09-06 10:50 ` Naveen N. Rao
2019-06-27 14:45 ` Naveen N. Rao
2019-06-27 14:53 ` Naveen N. Rao
2021-12-23 18:00 ` David Bremner [this message]
2022-01-14 11:26 ` Naveen N. Rao
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