View sent emails together with conversation
Hi, I wanted to know if there's a way to see my sent emails together with the incoming emails. I have heard of solutions that suggest using the Thunderbird Conversations add-on. It's still not working for me but maybe I didn't set it up right. But before I try using an add-on is there a native way to set up Thunderbird to see incoming and sent emails together?
If not I will try troubleshooting the Conversations add-on I have installed and see if I can get it to work, currently, with this add-on, it still only displays the incoming emails. I made sure that I have Conversations View enabled, as well as Sort by > Threaded. I tried also enabling Threads > Collapse All Threads but it seems like whenever I check on this setting from the top menu the check mark is always on All no matter how many times I select Collapse All Threads.
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Standard Thunderbird can show all incoming and outgoing messages related to a thread. Right click on email and select 'Open Message in Conversation' a new tab opens showing all incoming and outgoing threads. So you do not need to set up or change anything to display that info.
If you sort incoming messages into various folders for better organising, but require any 'Reply' responses to those emails to be kept in the same folder:
Right click on mail account in Folder pane and select 'Settings'
select: 'Copies & Folders' for that account
When sending messages:
select checkbox: 'Place replies in the folder of the message being replied to'
click on 'OK'
If any folder is containing both sent and received, you can use the column header 'Correspondents' which will help to differentiate between those sent and received.
Great I will test this out!
I'm with Toad-Hall. I may have several conversations with a given correspondent so "view as conversation" is of limited value since it only shows me the selected conversation. File all those messages, sent and received, together in their own folder and so you automatically have your conversations all in one place.
An alternative is to store everything in one place and use tags. This doesn't appeal to me. I don't like huge folders and I think I'd struggle to make use of the large number of tags I'd need.
I think I'm on the right track. I In my account settings I went to each account and checked "Place replies in the folder of the message being replied to".
Seems to work. The only part that's missing is the original 1st email that started the entire conversation. So basically the conversation starts off with the first reply, and any back and forth email replies are all there, but not the first original email that I sent someone. It's just cut out of the conversation :(
Any advice on how to make that work also?
Well, if you go down the route of using folders, how is Thunderbird to know where that first message should be stored? It can't know unless you tell it. So, 3 options:
- Move the message yourself.
- Start in the required folder and use the available options or an addon to save the sent message there. I use Copy Sent To Current
- Use a filter to automatically move the message on sending.
Toad-Hall said
Standard Thunderbird can show all incoming and outgoing messages related to a thread. Right click on email and select 'Open Message in Conversation' a new tab opens showing all incoming and outgoing threads. So you do not need to set up or change anything to display that info. If you sort incoming messages into various folders for better organising, but require any 'Reply' responses to those emails to be kept in the same folder: Right click on mail account in Folder pane and select 'Settings' select: 'Copies & Folders' for that account When sending messages: select checkbox: 'Place replies in the folder of the message being replied to' click on 'OK' If any folder is containing both sent and received, you can use the column header 'Correspondents' which will help to differentiate between those sent and received.
Add-on "Copy to sent". It will put your replied message in current folder & sent folder.