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<p dir="auto">How about this: modify the subject on the reply instead of modifying the sender’s email subject or other.</p>
<p dir="auto">For goofy subjects in the email on reply I add an additional item enclosed in brackets ([])> So I can sort by the original (“Question:” or otherwise) so it makes sense to me.</p>
<p dir="auto">Chances are further replay from the same person will incorporate the new subject. If I was desperate on my file copy, guess I could add the notation discussed but haven’t seen the need so far.</p>
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On 5 Feb 2023, at 15:27, John Doherty via mailmate wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On Sun 2023-02-05 12:42 PM MST -0700, <a href="mailto:mailinglist@freron.com">mailinglist@freron.com</a> wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Yup, I never even noticed before that this option existed and can't really think of why I would want to do it. But different strokes, etc. Maybe someone has a reason that I haven't thought of.</p>
<p dir="auto">I believe the typical use case is something like this: Whenever receiving an email with a non-descriptive subject header such as “Help” or “Bug” (it happens a lot) then the recipient might want to rewrite the subject to something which makes it easier to identify later on.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Having now thought a little more, I have one long-term and pretty regular correspondent who nearly always uses terrible subjects (e.g., "question") and has other sort of horrible email habits, like responding to existing threads with new messages with new subjects.</p>
<p dir="auto">I might try this feature after all but would have to experiment some. I wonder how things would work out if the chain of messages goes like this, where B is me:</p>
<p dir="auto">A: Subject: question<br>
B: change subject to something helpful, reply<br>
A: replies, does not change subject<br>
B: replies, does not change subject<br>
A: "replies" but really sends a new message with some other unhelpful subject<br>
B: change subject back to same as second message, reply<br>
A: replies, does not change subject</p>
<p dir="auto">And so on. Might be more trouble than it's worth, but this is a correspondent whose messages I sometimes want to find and refer to much later, like months or more. That's when the bad email habits are even worse than in the moment. Stuff can be pretty hard to find.</p>
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