Re: [Evolution] Showing replies below mails

[Ángel <angel 16bits net>]

On 2022-01-27 at 12:54 +0000, Krauß, Peter (SCC) wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I wonder if it's possible to configure Evolution in a way that I my
> reply mails are grouped in the thread they belong to.

Hello Peter

evolution groups mails by thread in the current view. That's usually
the folder you have open. I think if you made a search for all messages
to/from Alice, you would view them threaded as well. But it requires
you to perform a search.


> Currently, mails are only grouped there if I activate a setting in the
> account preferences ("Save replies in the folder of the message"), yet
> this only works for mails sent with Evolution.

Saving sent messages along the received ones helps to keep everything
organized, indeed. (IMHO, YMMV) Both for threading and for normal
filing.

I thus prefer not to save sent messages separately.

However…

> I also use the account on my smart phone and with other mail clients
> (OWA), resulting in the reply emails only present in the sent-mails-
> folder and thus not appearing in the mail thread.

if you use a different client, it may decide to save what you send
wherever it wants to, which can be different than where *you* would
want it to save it.

In some cases with multiple clients you could even end up with
*multiple folders*: Sent messages, Sent items, Verschickt, Sent…

e.g. the recently mentioned case of multiple Trash folders:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2022-January/msg00130.html


If you want a client to save the mails somewhere else, you will need to
configure / request such setting for that client.

As far as I know, it is not possible to designate the same folder for
two roles in Exchange.



> Further I found that OWA can indeed group mails with replies in a
> thread somehow even if the reply was sent with a totally different
> mail program. So I was wondering if Evolution could do that too.

You could create virtual folders, so instead of Inbox you could e.g.
use a folder which included both your physical Inbox and Sent folders.
But if you want to include everything on Sent when viewing every
folder, you would need to create a virtual folder for every normal one
(plus, the sent messages would appear on unrelated views).


My process -I dare not to call it a workaround- is to periodically move
the emails that were sent with a different client from Sent to the
Inbox, to later distribute then to the 'right' folder.


Best regards