[MlMt] Threads and Sent Messages

[John Doherty]

Well, I'm someone who doesn't care about "conversation view," so I guess 
I can try to explain why not. I do know other people who care about it a 
lot.

I do frequently refer to old (sometimes very old) email messages for all 
sorts of reasons. I just search. MailMate has what I think are really 
great search features and I can usually find what I'm looking for pretty 
fast and easily.

Usually all I need is the search box in the upper right of the viewer 
window. Sometimes I need to further filter with additional search 
criteria. Sometimes I make a new smart mailbox if I think I'll want to 
refer to the messages again in a few hours or days.

I also use the MailMate feature of clicking on "From:", "Subject:", 
"To:" lines in the message header pane a lot to find other similar 
messages.

That's it, I just search. It works really well for me. I don't care 
about threads or conversation view. I don't even usually have "Organize 
by Thread" turned on.

I think this is mostly a "different strokes" kind of thing.

On Mon 2024-01-15 12:25 PM MST -0700, <devynosborne at gmail.com> wrote:

> (And, I’m still curious about how people use email *without* 
> comprehensive views by thread. Though, after years of viewing emails 
> in the context of their conversations, I find it hard to imagine not 
> doing so.)