Just to let you know, a few of your email replies are missing the commonly used prepended subject "Re: ". This makes it a little strange for threading and also it makes it appear that your message is the original (first) posting and not a follow-up. I am assuming your VM 7.07 (in Emacs) can prepend this "Re: " to your subject. I believe this is done with the vm-reply-subject-prefix setting. Maybe in your ~/.vm file add: (setq vm-reply-subject-prefix "Re: ") And maybe to so replies will be matched with original: (setq vm-subject-ignored-prefix "^\\(re: *\\)+") Or to work with numbered Re's too: (setq vm-subject-ignored-prefix "^\\(re\\(\\[[0-9]+\\]\\)?: *\\)+" You could also check for "AW:" too: (setq vm-reply-subject-prefix '("Re: " "AW: ")) Of course, we could argue that the threading should just be done by date or by using the References and/or In-Reply-To headers instead. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/