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Conversation View: filter by specific email addresses

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PinkHat
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I have mails to several different people with different content, but (exactly) the same Subject line. When I open one of these mails in conversation view I ... Actual behavior: ... see all mails sorted by date, but totally mixed up by receipient/content. Example (view with mono-font): |- Mail To: Me From: Mr. A |--- Mail To: Mr A From: Me |--- Mail To: Me From: Mr. A (indenation as in the Thunderbird) |----- Mail To: Mr. B From: Me |----- Mail To: Mr. C From: Me |-------- Mail To: Me From: Mr. C |-------- Mail To: Mr. C From: Me

( You can see, that three different conversation are shown )

Intended Behavior ...would expect to show the conversation only between me and that receipient. I don't want mails to other receipients (i.e. different conversations) to be shown here.


Is there a way of setting Thunderbird up that way? Or is this maybe even a bug (Info: all recipients happen to be in the same top-level and second-level domain)?

Regards

I have mails to several different people with different content, but (exactly) the same Subject line. When I open one of these mails in conversation view I ... '''Actual behavior:''' ... see all mails sorted by date, but totally mixed up by receipient/content. Example (view with mono-font): |- Mail To: Me From: Mr. A |--- Mail To: Mr A From: Me |--- Mail To: Me From: Mr. A (indenation as in the Thunderbird) |----- Mail To: Mr. B From: Me |----- Mail To: Mr. C From: Me |-------- Mail To: Me From: Mr. C |-------- Mail To: Mr. C From: Me ( You can see, that three different conversation are shown ) '''Intended Behavior''' ...would expect to show the conversation only between me and that receipient. I don't want mails to other receipients (i.e. different conversations) to be shown here. Is there a way of setting Thunderbird up that way? Or is this maybe even a bug (Info: all recipients happen to be in the same top-level and second-level domain)? Regards

Chosen solution

Hm... didn't really help. But Using the filter mechanism within the Conversation view solved the problem for now.

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sfhowes
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Not sure exactly what you're aiming for, or how you're viewing 'conversations', but if I wanted to keep all threads with a particular sender separate from other senders, I would set View/Sort by/From & Grouped by sort, and then to see all sent and received messages for a particular thread, right-click a message, Open Message In Conversation.

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Hm... didn't really help. But Using the filter mechanism within the Conversation view solved the problem for now.