Mail.app Conversation/Threading issues like RES: RES: RES:

Hello,
When using Gmail on Apple's mail, the conversations/threads are not being grouped properly when the subject field of the messages starts having many prefixes "RES" in the subject.
Some email clients (e.g. Mail in iPad), adds a "RE:" or "RES:" prefix every time when a message is replied.
This, causes some subject fields having something like: "RES: RES: RES: RES: Original Subject".
When this situation happens, the conversations in Mail.app apparently break, that is, one email (or more) that should be grouped to a conversation is displayed as a different conversation.
This is an example that causes problem for me:
1) I send a message with subject "Test"
2) I receive a reply with subject (sent from other email client) "RES: Test"
3) I reply again (using Mail), then the subject becomes: "Re: RES: Test"
4) I receive a reply with subject (sent from other email client), and the subject now comes as: "RES: RES: Test"
At this point, I've got 3 different conversations where this should be grouped as one.
If I open Gmail, the conversation works perfectly, but in Mail it doesn't.
Is there anything I can do about it?
Using Mail.app 6.3

From Mail help:
Show your original message:
Replies to your messages sometimes don’t show your original message. To show it, click the See More link at the bottom-left corner of a message.
Open Mail help and the link to Conversations is there.

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