ThreadMethodOrderedSubject Field

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Type: ThreadMethod

The ORDEREDSUBJECT threading algorithm is also referred to as "poor man's threading". The searched messages are sorted by base subject and then by the sent date. The messages are then split into separate threads, with each thread containing messages with the same base subject text. Finally, the threads are sorted by the sent date of the first message in the thread. The top level or "root" in ORDEREDSUBJECT threading contains the first message of every thread. All messages in the root are siblings of each other. The second message of a thread is the child of the first message, and subsequent messages of the thread are siblings of the second message and hence children of the message at the root. Hence, there are no grandchildren in ORDEREDSUBJECT threading. Children in ORDEREDSUBJECT threading do not have descendants. Client implementations SHOULD treat descendants of a child in a server response as being siblings of that child.