New email notification chains not working
Posted: Mon 08 Apr 2019 18:08
Greetings! I see the release notes for RA 4 include the text "In addition, now all the notifications on one review are combined into message chains." I just upgraded to 4.1.223 and I noticed that RA emails now include the SMTP header "references" with a unique value for each review; however, there is no "in-reply-to" header with the same value, so e.g. Outlook 2016 doesn't display the messages as a conversation. In effect the emails look nicer than older RA versions, but they are still completely unchained and unrelated to on-another and just jumble up the inbox like before. By way of comparison, github enterprise includes both the references and in-reply-to headers on every message--even the initial review, interestingly. When you tested this feature, what email client let you get away with only using the references header and not including in-reply-to?
RFC2822 (section 3.6.4, https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt ) includes details on how to implement these fields correctly--long story short this feature isn't going to work as planned without both headers. Is this a regression in RA 4.1.223? I didn't use any of the initial 4.x releases except this one and came right from 3.6 latest. We're extremely interested in seeing this feature in action because RA emails are just all over the place and difficult to follow, so we'd really appreciate some help understanding what's going on. Ideally this feature should allow any email client (that understands how to use those fields for threading) to chain all messages so you have one thread per review.
Thanks,
Jesse
RFC2822 (section 3.6.4, https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt ) includes details on how to implement these fields correctly--long story short this feature isn't going to work as planned without both headers. Is this a regression in RA 4.1.223? I didn't use any of the initial 4.x releases except this one and came right from 3.6 latest. We're extremely interested in seeing this feature in action because RA emails are just all over the place and difficult to follow, so we'd really appreciate some help understanding what's going on. Ideally this feature should allow any email client (that understands how to use those fields for threading) to chain all messages so you have one thread per review.
Thanks,
Jesse