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)
Thanks for your help Steven, but maybe you should read the question next time before wasting your time! 🙂
It seems to me that at the moment this isn't possible, and its not that I can't work it out, but rather that it isn't a feature within the program, which is a bit short-sighted if you ask me!
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.
:-(
Afetr you have done this and you have a group of emails click on the group and the whole conversation appears in a new window, very neat!🙂
Yea it's annoying that it's not able to do this. I almost always have emails to add to exisiting conversations. I was surprised that I couldn't just drag and drop it into the same stack.
Please add this functionality!
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.
I will post a feature request on http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
I'm also looking for a way to merge conversations, anyone???
The option is under the view menu slect organise by conversation
Thank you Steven, I think my question was not clear enough, what I want to know is: if I have two related conversations, can I (manually) rearrange them as one conversation? how?
In Mail preferences there is an option on the veiw tab to incude related messages could try ticking that option
Merging Conversations in Mail
