I love the email integration of the bug tracker!

But I also love gmail.

There are two issues with the email from the bug tracker in gmail:

(a) Threading doesn't always work. I believe that in order to make it work, you
should use an in-reply-to header listing the message-id of at least one previous
message in the thread.

(b) When threading *does* work, in gmail's Inbox display, it looks like all
messages were sent by the first author in the thread. This is because the
tracker uses the same email address (reports@bugs.python.org) for all email it
sends, only varying the "real name" part.  Somehow the inbox decides that all
mail from the same email address comes from the same real name.  (Usually a fair
assumption. :-)  A solution for this might be to use the username as the email
address, or if that's too complicated, perhaps something like
reports+<user>@bugs.python.org.  (Many MTAs these days have support for
funneling all mail to x+y@domain to x@domain, making this an attractive solution.)