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.

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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.

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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.