Mail: Organize by Thread

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Mail: Organize by Thread

As rudimentary as it was I took advantage of the Organize by Thread feature of Snow Leopard, which seems to be missing in Lion. I get a lot of website generated emails with the same subject, which was easy to organize in Snow Leopard. In SL I would have one thread that had hundreds of emails (and I do mean hundreds) in Lion I now have hundreds of threads which I have to manage individually. Is there any way to get back to organize by thread? I've already enabled classic view but it doesn't appear to help.

Thanks,

-John

Posted on Nov 20, 2011 7:46 PM

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Answer 1

May 22, 2017 3:54 AM in response to alfa1956

Same problem here....

mail - grouping conversation criteria in Yosemite

Any news on this topic? so poorly explained really... In Yosemite it seems that Mail streamlines the message list by grouping messages into conversations, based on the subject lines, dates, senders, recipients, and other information.

But how exactly is this done? Which is the exact criteria used by mail to group messages into conversation? How is that not possible to set rules for grouping into conversations?

For example, I'd like to group emails with the same subject line into a conversation, regardless of senders / recipient? Is it possible? Thx

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Nov 20, 2011 7:59 PM in response to Johnny Storm

try this and let me know if it works:

Open up Mail, and go to Preferences from the "Mail" menu in the top navigation bar.
Click the "Viewing" tab in Mail Preferences.
Check the box that says "Show Related Messages."

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captfred

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Nov 20, 2011 8:03 PM in response to Johnny Storm

On the menubar, Mail > view > Organize by Conversation

Regards,

Captfred

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Johnny Storm Author

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Nov 20, 2011 8:15 PM in response to captfred

Thanks guys, I had tried both of those options and they didn't work, I still have mutliple threads with the same subject, instead of one thread containing all the messages.

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bodie8

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Dec 5, 2011 11:20 AM in response to Johnny Storm

No help here, but I need to commiserate.

If I understand correctly, I am having the same problem:

Messages with the same subject, but with different senders, are not consolidated into a single thread/conversation.

I also receive emails via a web form, where each message contains the same subject. In 10.6, these messages were ALL listed as a single thread that could be expanded/collapsed. In 10.7, they are now all separate messages in the Inbox (organized by "Conversation"). What used to be a neat and condensed display is now a very long list.

Still searching for a solution/workaround...

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fabric

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Mar 9, 2012 8:29 AM in response to bodie8

I started a new discussion about this, I hadn't found this one while searching. I'm having the same problem, I've uploaded a screen shot to help illustrate, and provided some additional details:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3792434

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NickTheC

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Apr 17, 2012 12:18 PM in response to Johnny Storm

I have exacly the same problem as fabric, and no solution for it 😟 Anyone?

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fabric

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Apr 19, 2012 2:41 PM in response to NickTheC

One of my colleagues opened a Dev case for the issue. Maybe that will get a little more traction. I suppose I could open one too.

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celliott147

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Apr 19, 2012 3:16 PM in response to fabric

I've had the same issue as well. It seems that for some reason, OS X does not read/recognize threads and related messages properly. It relates to OS X as my iPhone and iPad have no issues and are much more efficient with the same email accounts...

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NickTheC

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Apr 19, 2012 4:14 PM in response to fabric

Please do share the link to that topic so I could follow it. Tnx.

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bugmancx

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Nov 14, 2012 9:47 PM in response to Johnny Storm

Oh how I hate to do a "Me too" post, but myself and several friends who participate on a mailing list all see this exact problem and it is very frustrating.

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