# Email notifications not grouping nicely in Mail.app

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-not-grouping-nicely-in-mail-app/14137>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2014 年 3 月 26 日午前 6:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-not-grouping-nicely-in-mail-app/14137 "2014-03-26T06:16:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![peternlewis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peternlewis/32/108888_2.png) [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)\
**Post date:** [2014 年 6 月 5 日午前 2:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-not-grouping-nicely-in-mail-app/14137/5 "2014-06-05T02:48:58Z")

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> [@peternlewis](#):
>
> I believe that Mail.app will only group the replies if they start with “Re:”

I have confirmed this with a change to config/locales/server.en.yml

> ```
> user_posted:
> subject_template: "Re: [%{site_name}] %{topic_title}"
> text_body_template: |
> %{message}
> 
> ```

After that, all mail messages (including the first of a topic) have the “Re:”, but Mail.app does properly thread them. So if I can figure out how to detect which posting is the original one, then I could make a patch for this. I’m also not really certain when the other mail messages formats are used (user\_posted\_pm, user\_mentioned, user\_quoted, user\_replied) and whether “Re:” is appropriate for any of them.

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