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Finding all messages in a Mail thread
BrentN | Jul 1 2007
I'm looking for a bit of Mail.app-fu to solve this annoyance. I have a MailTag called "following," that I use to mark threads from high-volume lists that I care about. It saves me a TON of time, since I have a couple of Smart Folders that let me quickly find these. The problem is that when I look in these folders, I only see the particular message I tagged, when it would be more useful to see the whole thread. My first thought was to try an applescript, but Mail's scripting dictionary doesn't know about threads. Does anyone have a way to either 1) quickly find all messages that are in the same thread as the selected or 2) go from a message in a smart folder to a view of the message in its actual folder location? Of course, if there is a totally different way to solve the problem, I'd be interested in hearing that too. 5 Comments
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 I can't stand Mailtags, so...Submitted by GeekLady on July 18, 2007 - 7:23am.
I can't stand Mailtags, so I don't know much about how it lets you select an individual message, but in Mail's View menu, you can check "Organize by thread" and it will keep entire threads together that you can expand or collapse. If I use the search function to find a message and select it, when I exit search (hitting the x in the search box) the message I selected from that search will have focus. And if I'm organizing by thread, all the messages from that thread will be grouped together in the main mail window. I do wish "Organize by thread" had a keycombo so I could toggle it at need. » POSTED IN:
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