[Closed] IT: email inbox fannying - I've asked this before ...

Outlook (and other clients) can group the conversations then will show you the email in the viewing pane. Mac mail also does so I assume most clients will

Thunderbird. Sort by "From", and Group By Sort.

Yep, Outlook will do that.

Right clock on the column you want to group by (in your case 'From') and click 'Group By'

Sorry for the [hijack]

I have been trying to find a way of having new emails in your inbox, that after you have read them, move automatically into another folder, out of your inbox?

I am using outlook 2007

Tried looking at the rules, but have not seen a way to do it yet?

Ta.

oooh, bencooper - That looks promising but I need to know who's recently sent me an email whereas they just sort alphabetically. As far as I can see, I'd have to open each subgroup several times a day just to see if I've had a new message?

I assume IHN's anwer produces the same effect ? (haven't got outlook installed so haven't given it a go)

(or am I missing something else 😳 )

If you have Outlook then I think you may be looking at the "conversation" feature that groups all threads that are part of the same conversation together but will still bubble up to the top of your inbox as new messages for that thread come in. Is that what you are looking for? It was more intuitive in Outlook 2010 but has been around since at least Outlook 2003.

I'm on gmail, gropewise and latterly thunderbird as a means of trying to achieve this

I don't just want to group conversations, I want all emails from, say, bencooper to be grouped as "one megaconversation" and all from bikingcatastrophe as another. Then I want the most recent to bubble to the top as well

thanks so far

A bit of experimenting in Thunderbird - I just have my emails sorted by date, newest at the top. Right-click on an email and select "Open Message in Conversation" opens a new tab with all emails I've exchanged with that person.

That the kind of thing you want?

thanks ben - home from work now & haven't yet got thunderbird installed here (& off out on the bike 🙂 ) so will try that later

Ah, no, that's not really it

My problem is that I don't delete stuff on gmail or my work accoun(except when I have to)
As a result I have multiple mails from the same sender (lots of bike shops' newsletters etc and also some work-related newsletters.
They fill the screens with shite so that I have to trawl many pages to be sure I haven't missed something more important somewhere
I'd rather that, for example, my daily updates of items posted to a work messageboard were all "hidden" within a single entry in the inbox; same for on-one "bargin" notifications etc

I'm going to have to find out about auto-taggage or something I think

Thanks all the same

Ah, well for that then custom filters are definitely your friend 🙂