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<p dir="auto">Jim,</p>
<p dir="auto">I’m not sure what Henry is trying to express, but I have some suggestions for you on thread display/management:</p>
<p dir="auto">I don’t think MailMate supports <em>grouping</em> messages non-hierarchically by thread and <em>sorting</em> them by date within each thread. (I remember Microsoft Entourage having this feature back in the day and I miss it.) The quickest thing I’ve found for looking through a single thread in chronological order is to:</p>
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<li>Click the subject line of the thread to focus on just this thread*.</li>
<li>Press Cmd-Shift-T to turn threading off. This should leave you with all the messages in the thread, sorted by date (or however you like.)</li>
</ol>
<p dir="auto">*Well, technically it’s “just the messages with this subject”, but that’s usually close enough.</p>
<p dir="auto">From here you can select multiple messages to see them in the view (in the same order that they appear in the list), open them, whatever. When you’re done, you can press Cmd-Shift-T again to turn threading back on and hit escape to go back to viewing all messages.</p>
<p dir="auto">You also have some options for expanding and collapsing threads quickly:</p>
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<li>Hold down the option key and click the disclosure triangle next to a message to expand or collapse responses to that message, recursively.</li>
<li>With a message selected, hold down the option key and press the right or left arrow key to expand or collapse responses to that message, recursively.</li>
</ol>
<p dir="auto">There are also commands to expand and collapse an entire thread, no matter which message in the thread is selected. They are:</p>
<ul>
<li><code style="margin: 0 0; padding: 0 0.25em; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F7;">expandThread:</code></li>
<li><code style="margin: 0 0; padding: 0 0.25em; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F7;">collapseThread:</code></li>
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<p dir="auto">These are not bound to keyboard shortcuts by default. I have them bound to “[“ and “]”. (Debian users may recognize these bindings from aptitude(1).)</p>
<p dir="auto">Read <a href="https://manual.mailmate-app.com/custom_key_bindings" style="color: #3983C4;">Custom Key Bindings</a> for information on how to set this stuff up.</p>
<p dir="auto">Here’s my (small) custom keybindings file:</p>
<pre style="margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; padding: 5px; background-color: #F7F7F7; border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px; overflow-x: auto; max-width: 90vw;"><code style="margin: 0 0; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F7; padding: 0px;">{
"[" = "expandThread:";
"]" = "collapseThread:";
a = "archive:";
j = "moveToJunk:";
l = "toggleFlag:";
m = "toggleReadState:";
s = "moveToMailbox:";
"/" = "searchAllMessages:";
}
</code></pre>
<p dir="auto">Hope this helps,<br>
-sam</p>
<p dir="auto">On 19 Oct 2022, at 21:25, Henry Seiden wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Jim,</p>
<p dir="auto">Further responses in line below:</p>
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<p dir="auto">As for my second question, <a href="http://i.imgur.com/JFVPj5s.png" style="color: #999999;">here is a screenshot</a> of my ongoing dialog with my lawyer. There are dozens more messages in this thread requiring laborious expansion. It’s hell to find the most recent.</p>
<p dir="auto">How do I change the Viewer to showing a flat list of unthreaded individual messages in reverse chron, ala Gmail’s view?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Note that in the picture I sent, of your first message it only shows the first quest and my responses to it. That is because the MM site reflects (echoes) responses to all. I have sent messages and received messages isolated in different folders. If I combine them, we’d see all threaded messages received and sent on the topic.</p>
<p dir="auto">I created a smart Mailbox with the thread in question and can capture all subjects containing the words required. Titled, “Same thread.” <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ocpmtuv0euv21jw/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-19%20at%20211712.png?dl=0" style="color: #777777;">Here are the conditions</a>. You can re-edit to isolate any thread you’d like in the Mailbox.</p>
<p dir="auto">Then, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4zdnidi5t8jd1u/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-19%20at%20212126.png?dl=0" style="color: #777777;">we can display a larger group</a>, showing all dated versions of specific subject emails. Some of this has to be applicable to what you want to do, right?</p>
<p dir="auto">Respectfully,</p>
<p dir="auto">Henry Seiden</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 19 Oct 2022, at 14:00, Jim Leff wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">How do I call up formatted view for a sent email?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Henry Seiden replied:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Can you define what you mean by a “formatted view”?</p>
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<p dir="auto">I can’t think of a clearer way to ask. Maybe it will help if I frame it as an anecdote.</p>
<p dir="auto">You reply to an email, interlacing your answers in blue. After sending, you re-open the sent mail, and the entire email is in black, because sent replies show unformatted.</p>
<p dir="auto">You wonder whether the formatting actually came through ok, but there’s no way to tell, nor any obvious way to bring up a formatted view of a sent message.</p>
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<p dir="auto">As for my second question, <a href="http://i.imgur.com/JFVPj5s.png" style="color: #999999;">here is a screenshot</a> of my ongoing dialog with my lawyer. There are dozens more messages in this thread requiring laborious expansion. It’s hell to find the most recent.</p>
<p dir="auto">How do I change the Viewer to showing a flat list of unthreaded individual messages in reverse chron, ala Gmail’s view?</p>
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