Merging Conversations in Mail

Hi guys, I'm thrilled with the new layout of mail, I recently switched back to using Mail from thunderbird, however I can't seem to find any way to merge conversations, or indeed to just add the odd email into a conversation.


As far as I'm concerned this is a really important feature to have, and I hope its possible to do this, but I haven't been able to work out how.


Thanks in advance!

Mail-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 12:45 PM

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Jul 22, 2011 5:32 AM in response to Steven Hill

from Mail.app help:



Include or exclude related messages

By default, conversations include only messages in the current mailbox. You can choose to include related messages from other mailboxes, such as your messages from the Sent mailbox, or replies that you have saved to a mailbox.

  • To always include related messages in every conversation, choose Mail > Preferences, click Viewing, and then select the “Include related messages” checkbox.
  • To include related messages for the current conversation only, choose View > Show Related Messages, or click the Show Related Messages icon (if you added it to the Mail toolbar).
  • To exclude related messages at any time, choose View > Hide Related Messages, or click the Hide Related Messages icon in the Mail toolbar.



:-(

Mar 31, 2013 7:27 PM in response to galmeida-us

It's a crummy workaround, but you can select the different messages and them forward them to yourself. That will leave you with one email message containing all the chatter from the other threads.


Of course this does away with the nice formatting Apple usually offers in email conversations. It also copies the messages one conversation on top of the other, rather than dropping the different emails in chronologically. But it does get all the messages into one.

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Merging Conversations in Mail

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