Bug 203104

Summary:	kmail sort by subject no longer ignores Re: and Fw:
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Hal V. Engel <hvengel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.11.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Hal V. Engel 2009-08-08 18:33:47 UTC

Version:           1.11.4 (using KDE 4.2.4)
Compiler:          gcc 4.3.1 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

Older versions of kmail ignored Re: and Fw: at the beginning of the subject when sorting.  New versions no longer do this.  As a result when sorting by subject the original message in a thread is separated from all of the replies. 

For example what I expect to see is:

<other subjects>
my subject
Fw: my subject
Re: my subject
Re: my subject
<still other subjects> 

Instead what it is doing is:

<Fw: other subjects>
Fw: my subject
<Fw: still other subjects> 
<other subjects>
my subject
<still other subjects> 
<Re: other subjects>
Re: my subject
Re: my subject
<Re:still other subjects> 

Since 

my subject
Fw: my subject
Re: my subject

all have the same logical subject and the prefixes Re: and Fw: are really not a logical part of the subject these prefixes should not be part of the sort order and should be ignored for sorting.

Comment 1 Martin Koller 2009-08-16 23:05:01 UTC

SVN commit 1012120 by mkoller:

BUG: 203104

On sorting by subject, ignore Re: and Fwd: prefixes to bring back
the old KDE3 behavior.



 M  +4 -1      item.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1012120

Comment 2 Martin Koller 2009-08-16 23:07:06 UTC

SVN commit 1012121 by mkoller:


Backport r1012120 by mkoller from trunk to the 4.3 branch:

CCBUG: 203104

On sorting by subject, ignore Re: and Fwd: prefixes to bring back
the old KDE3 behavior.




 M  +4 -1      item.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1012121