becca making faces | research and experiments in design, typography, and bookbinding
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If you didn’t know, Google recently changed the way it groups emails into threads, or as it calls them, conversations. Previously Gmail used the subject and sender information to group emails. This new method relies on explicit linking through the References header, which is much better.
Lots of our network equipment sends email notifications without the References header, and this confuses conversation view when the emails have the same subject. This causes problems especially when an appliance sends emails about different events all with the same subject line. It makes it hard to group the separate events.
All we have to do is somehow add a References header with a random value (random because if a References header exists but is unique, the message won’t be threaded even if it has the same subject and is from the same sender as another message). I decided to use part of the Message-ID header as my source of random data (not being able to generate random data the way this solution works). Message-ID is a unique id for each message. This suits my purpose as only when the References header matches up with a pre
becca making faces | research and experiments in design, typography, and bookbinding