View "Conversations" for some accounts/folders but not others?

Feature request
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I fear the answer will be “sorry, not at this time” but I’m asking here after searching many other places.

I have multiple email accounts (some of which are straight IMAP and others are Exchange, with sub-mailboxes, shared mailboxes, etc.)

I personally do not tend to ever view my messages in “conversation” view, but (for reasons I won’t get into here) it would be advantageous to do so in just one of my folders (a shared Exchange mailbox)

I see how under Menu --> View --> Conversations there’s the option to change how messages are displayed, but this seems to be a totally global setting. Is there any way of displaying just one specific account (or, even better, just one particular folder) with Conversations enabled?

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You are correct, conversations are globally on or off, but when on, they only include messages from the same account. That means a message in account 1 will not be included in a conversation in account 2.

Conversations probably wouldn’t work with just one folder, as on the most basic level they include both sent and received messages.

3

any chance of a feature in future for Conversations to be turned on/off at least based on account? I realize that could be a rather big ask.

4

I changed this thread to a Feature Request. Maybe the developers will notice it and add it to the list of things to be considered.

5

Solid. There are definitely cases where I am now realizing I appreciated Thunderbird’s ability to do this so very much. I would keep maybe 90% or more of all my folders with a view showing all individual messages in a list, but for a few announcement lists of which I am a part (which are high-volume and which I’d often only check once a day or once every other day) and which I had a filter rule to sort into their own sub-folder… I am now recalling that I kept those sub-folders displaying by conversation in order to make things easier there.

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I see this thread was last active long ago, in 2021. I see a somewhat related thread, Show folder name in conversation view and a couple other threads that could be summarized as, “Do conversations the way Outlook and PostBox do it.”

I think I can provide a simple example of the problem:

eM Client puts all messages in all folders into a conversation.
Thunderbird, and PostBox puts messages in a PARTICULAR folder into a conversation.

Here is my use case:

I BCC myself on every email I send. This is a habit I got into when email was young, and one that when I stop doing, bites me when some new email client or email infrastructure misbehaves.

This means that EVERY conversation that I participate in shows TWO messages from me every time I reply: One in the folder where I’m managing the conversation, and one from my BCC’d SENT folder.

Here is why the eM Client conversation implementation that puts items from ALL folders into a conversation is bad for me, and is a “deal breaker”. I probably will NOT switch from PostBox to eM Client because of this:

When I am through with a conversation, I delete the whole conversation.

However, as a backup, I do NOT want the Blind Carbon Copy in my SENT folder to be deleted. OOPS! eM Client has an interface that is confusing and destroys data with this setup. I see 2 copies of everything I sent, and my SENT copy gets deleted when I delete the conversation.

If eM Client has no way to say, “Keep messages ONLY in this folder in the conversation.” And “DO NOT include items in my SENT folder in my INBOX or other Folder conversations”, then I cannot use it.

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We are having the same issue, we have 5-6 email accounts being managed, really only want one of them in Conversation Thread view, but it’s all or nothing and it’s a huge pain. Prior Postbox user, really wanted this feature to be available in eMClient especially since we bought 7 Lifetime licenses.