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I would like for Thunderbird to show replies to threaded messages in with the received messages. Is this possible, even with an extension?

The desired behavior would be something like how Zimbra's threaded email view works.

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GMail Conversation View does what you want without having to copy replies into your folders. Sometimes it doesn't properly pull in your replies, and it doesn't start conversations if you initiated them, but it is the most similar to gmail I have found.

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Combine this and gatorbrit's answer and I've basically got what I want. Thanks guys! – Colin Dean May 5 '10 at 22:01
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You need to go to the account settings for the account and select Copies & Folders, then check the box "Place replies in the folder of the message being replied to"

Also enable sorting by thread.

THis will replicate the gmail effect I think.

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Combine this and user30075's answer and I've basically got what I want. Thanks guys! – Colin Dean May 5 '10 at 22:01
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To view emails as conversation threads, go to View, Sort By, and choose Threaded, (Unthreaded to stop showing threads.)

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This applies to the latest versions of Thunderbird. Thanks! – Colin Dean Feb 22 at 18:59
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Yes, this Lifehacker-page describes how to enable it: http://lifehacker.com/264317/maintain-threaded-view-in-thunderbird

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While this maintains threads when sorting by other columns, it unfortunately does not show thread replies from the Sent folder--this is the behavior which I desire. – Colin Dean Nov 29 '09 at 5:05
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Click on the header of the left-most (usually) column give you the threaded view.

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While this enables thread view using mail in the inbox, it unfortunately does not show thread replies from the Sent folder--this is the behavior which I desire. – Colin Dean Nov 29 '09 at 5:06
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