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I tried Thunderbird recently, and was baffled that there seemed to be no way to see received emails grouped with my responses to them (aka threading or conversa
by BoppreH 2mo ago
I tried Thunderbird recently, and was baffled that there seemed to be no way to see received emails grouped with my responses to them (aka threading or conversations). Even grouping incoming emails that have the same subject seemed like an experimental feature.
Surely I'm missing something? How are people using it? If someone replies to you "I think there was a problem with your attachment", do you search for your sent email?
- sylens 2mo agoIt’s been there for a while https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/message-threading-thunderbird https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/message-threading-thund...
- BoppreH 2mo agoI had tried this, but the grouping only happened among messages of each folder. And Sent is a separate folder, so it doesn't get included. Or did I miss something? Do you see your replies in the threaded view?
- PurpleRamen 2mo agoThunderbird has a folder-based organization, so out of the box can it only group mails per folder. What you want is a GMail-view/organization, where all mails are in one folder. But this will probably not work well with bigger amounts of mails, because Thunderbird is not optimized for this, especially when the mails are on a remote server.
- BoppreH 2mo agoWhich one do you use? I'm really curious if there's an alternative workflow that is just as good as GMail-view, or people just learn to accept the limitations.
- PurpleRamen 2mo agoI don't use threads, because people in my business are very active in sending the whole history in EACH mail, and others communications have a web-frontend. But if you need threading so much, you could also just move your send mails with the rest of the mails, there is a setting with the server-confg, which defines what is to be done with send mails, which by default saves a copy in the Sent-folder. You could also check out filters and labels. And looking at the roadmap of thunderbird, there is some plan about a global database, which reads as if this might allow a Gmail-style frontend somewhere in the future. So maybe next year threading might a more solved problem..
- BoppreH 2mo ago> because people in my business are very active in sending the whole history in EACH mail, Unfortunately that quoted history is not easily navigable and doesn't include attachments. > there is a setting with the server-confg, which defines what is to be done with send mail I looked into it, but it unfortunately only applies to future messages sent. Typing this I just realized that I could maybe move my existing sent messages into the uber-folder, I'll give that a try.
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- commoner 2mo agoThunderbird supports threading in the message list pane (which displays replies next to the email that was replied to), but a conversation mode for the message pane is still in development: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/true-threaded-conversations-in-thunderbird/idi-p/29558 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/true-threaded-conversat... In the meantime, the Thunderbird Conversations add-on provides a conversation view that looks like classic Gmail, which is probably what you're looking for: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail-conversation-view/ https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail...
- BoppreH 2mo agoI had seen both of these. The add-on implementation is too complicated and affects too many systems (contacts, attachments, etc) that change frequently, so it had many subtle bugs and unimplemented features: https://github.com/thunderbird-conversations/thunderbird-conversations/wiki/faq https://github.com/thunderbird-conversations/thunderbird-con... As for the Message List Pane, maybe that's something I missed, I'll take another look.
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- bad_username 2mo agoCreate a virtual folder (saved search) that includes all messages from sent and inbox. Enable threading, and you will have conversations.