# Discourse email messages are incorrectly threaded

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-email-messages-are-incorrectly-threaded/233499
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [July 21, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-email-messages-are-incorrectly-threaded/233499 "2022-07-21T06:50:36Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-email-messages-are-incorrectly-threaded/233499/36 "2022-07-29T01:28:37Z")

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The argument for including topic\_id is that you can deliberately break threading if people split a post from a topic into another topic.

I am mixed on it. Can go either way. But that would be the idea.

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