On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:06:35PM -0700, Yoshiki Vazquez-Baeza wrote: > On (May-10-16|10:51), Will Yardley wrote: > > On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 10:11:57PM -0700, Thomas Roessler wrote: > > > If I think about the single most critical feature that makes today's > > > mail volume manageable for me (other than priority inbox), then it's > > > conversation view: The ability to page through an entire mail thread > > > quickly without having to go back to the index view, and without > > > having to think about having to move to another message. > > > > If you collapse threads, isn't this possible? > > This is what I do myself, I always have threads collapsed and the index > is "thread sorted", however I have to say that not all services from > which I receive email thread the messages properly, most notably GitHub > will not thread messages and instead messages are sorted in the order > they come, not in the order they really should have. I even emailed > their team a while ago, and they explained this is not something they > could change :( If I'm understanding correctly, this sort of problem > would be fixed with a "conversation view", so I would find this feature > very useful as well!
I think "conversations" in Gmail are essentially the same thing as threads, no? The $strict_threads and other settings related to threads / pseudo-threads would adjust the behavior somewhat, but I think the display issue should be one thing, and how mutt determines what's a thread or not should be another. w
