Anyone know of a way to merge email threads

[jbinfrisco]

I may be missing it but is there an obvious (or easy) way to merge
email threads?

[Chris17]

Forward thread2 to yourself with the same subject as thread1. Then you
will at least have a copy of everything all in one place.

[Andrew Ingraham]

> I may be missing it but is there an obvious (or easy) way to merge
> email threads?

There is no easy way ... Google doesn't give that to us as a control, either
to break threads apart, or to merge them together. (The only thing we can
do, is delete individual messages in a thread, if you are careful how you do
it.)

Messages are put into threads by virtue of their subject, apparently; though
there seem to be occasional exceptions to that as a simple rule. So as
'Chris17' says, the only thing you can do is forward messages to yourself
with the subject of the thread under which you want them to appear. It is
cumbersome but that's about all we can do.

Andy

[jbinfrisco]

Thanks Chris & Andrew. So I tried both fwd with (fwd:subject) & w/out
(subject) and neither seem to create merged singular thread. Does the
suggested work-around still produce two threads but produce similar
subject lines? Is that the workaround or is there something I'm
missing in my effort to merge? Thanks, JB

[Andrew Ingraham]

> Thanks Chris & Andrew. So I tried both fwd with (fwd:subject) & w/out
> (subject) and neither seem to create merged singular thread. Does the
> suggested work-around still produce two threads but produce similar
> subject lines? Is that the workaround or is there something I'm
> missing in my effort to merge?

Interesting. I just tried it myself, even using cut-and-paste to get
the subject exactly right, three times and got three new threads!
(Also tried it with a "Re:" prefix to see if it made any difference.)
So apparently, Google is using more information than just the subject,
to decide how to group messages into threads.

Given that, I can't think of a way to accomplish what you want.

There have been suggestions to Google to allow control over threads.
There's a webpage somewhere where you can 'vote' on suggested Gmail
improvements. This suggestion was one of the choices, but I don't
recall whether I saw it listed there the last time I checked.

Andy

[Zack (Doc)]

It's called "Conversation View changes" on the suggestion page.

--

Randy K. Milholland  - "The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman."

[jbinfrisco]

Thanks. I posted a suggestion for Conversation View changes - I think
it would greatly enhance project management workflow. Thanks for
everyone's help. Greatly appreciated. @jbinfrisco

On Oct 1, 10:15 am, "Zack (Doc)" <z...@tnan.net> wrote:
> It's called "Conversation View changes" on the suggestion page.
>

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:39, Andrew Ingraham <andrew.ingra...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > > Thanks Chris & Andrew. So I tried both fwd with (fwd:subject) & w/out
> > > (subject) and neither seem to create merged singular thread. Does the
> > > suggested work-around still produce two threads but produce similar
> > > subject lines? Is that the workaround or is there something I'm
> > > missing in my effort to merge?
>
> > Interesting.  I just tried it myself, even using cut-and-paste to get
> > the subject exactly right, three times and got three new threads!
> > (Also tried it with a "Re:" prefix to see if it made any difference.)
> > So apparently, Google is using more information than just the subject,
> > to decide how to group messages into threads.
>
> > Given that, I can't think of a way to accomplish what you want.
>
> > There have been suggestions to Google to allow control over threads.
> > There's a webpage somewhere where you can 'vote' on suggested Gmail
> > improvements.  This suggestion was one of the choices, but I don't
> > recall whether I saw it listed there the last time I checked.
>
> > Andy
>
> --
>

> Randy K. Milholland <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/34156.html>  - "The

[kevish]

i've wanted to do this too. is there somewhere i can "vote" to
advance this feature?