[MlMt] Threads and Sent Messages

[devynosborne at gmail.com]

That’s a good point.

I saw a lot of mention throughout the archives of the chronological 
issue, which I understand will be solved with the newer version of 
threading, still to be implemented.

On 15 Jan 2024, at 12:46, Jo wrote:

> The conversation threads drive me crazy - first, I hate clicking to 
> open the thread to get to the most recent, but mostly I just want the 
> newest emails to be on top. I have a lot of filters set up to route 
> things into folders (mostly by senders or groups of senders), so I can 
> find my conversations that way, I guess.
>
>> Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.
>>
>> I think, for me, that could work as long as I knew what I was looking 
>> for. Often, though, I’m revisiting an old conversation to see where 
>> we left off, who’s court the ball is in, or how much I need to 
>> pester someone.  ;-)  A lot of what I do is staying on top of other 
>> people and/or following up, and seeing the whole view of a 
>> conversation is very helpful.
>>
>> Thanks for the tip re: clicking on header lines. I think that might 
>> come in handy.
>>
>> And thanks again for sharing how you work; it helps inform my use 
>> (especially as long as I’m shifting email clients). I even read 
>> [this review](https://tyler.io/2020/04/additional-mailmate-tips/) in 
>> which he says MM broke him of his habit of looking in threaded views. 
>>  :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15 Jan 2024, at 12:22, John Doherty wrote:
>>
>>> 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.)
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