How do you do Gmail style threading view in thunderbird ? They changed the game wrt email display and 20 years later I still don’t know how to get thunderbird to do it.
Gmail:
- see all email bodies for a single conversation in one long list , like a DM in a messenger, with smart hiding of quoted text so you only see new content
- in your inbox / archive view, mix both sent and incoming emails in such conversations, so I don’t have to toggle between Sent and INBOX or Archive
I would be happy with just one of these two but I genuinely can’t hack it.
I would personally go as far as to say: any email client which doesn’t do this, is wrong.
> How do you do Gmail style threading view in thunderbird ? They changed the game wrt email display and 20 years later I still don’t know how to get thunderbird to do it.
I hate it. It hides texts, and I lost answers in this view more often than I want to admit. If it is not ping-pong conversation (I wrote you, you answer, I answer at your last answer, etc), but discussion between 3+ people where different people answer to different messages, gmail view is total mess when you cannot understand who answer to what. As I said, it doesn't support threads, only messenger-like conversations.
Any e-mail client which doesn't support tree view for threads is wrong.
You can put answers to same folder that message your answer in (any?) sane e-mail client, Thunderbird is not exclusion.
Update:
> smart hiding of quoted text so you only see new content
I've missed text hidden by mistake due to some formatting quirks more than once. It is solution in search of problem: proper quoting doesn't need any magic.
> How do you do Gmail style threading view in thunderbird ?
I used an extension once but it broke at some point.
> - see all email bodies for a single conversation in one long list , like a DM in a messenger, with smart hiding of quoted text so you only see new content
Or not so smart hiding of "repeated" content like say an image with a different URL but hey the rest of the <img> tag is the same so close enough for Gmail.
Gmail:
- see all email bodies for a single conversation in one long list , like a DM in a messenger, with smart hiding of quoted text so you only see new content
- in your inbox / archive view, mix both sent and incoming emails in such conversations, so I don’t have to toggle between Sent and INBOX or Archive
I would be happy with just one of these two but I genuinely can’t hack it.
I would personally go as far as to say: any email client which doesn’t do this, is wrong.