[gps-talkusers] Re: Sorting Messages:

Peggy,
You'll have to change two options to get OE to work the way you want it to. First, there's a checkbox that says "automatically expand conversations", and you have to check it. Then, there's another option that lets you confirm whether you want to delete an entire conversation, although I don't remember exactly what it's called. If you're automatically expanding conversations, they will be sorted from oldest to newest message. As you go down through the message list, you'll hear "expanded" at the beginning of each group of messages. Pressing the Left Arrow collapses the group, and at that point you'll see only the first message in each group.
One additional caveat: if someone alters the subject, you may not see all the messages for one conversation in a single group. The expansion technique isn't perfect, but it works most of the time. 

Steve
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peggy Kern" <kernsac@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 12:11
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Sorting Messages:
I have mine sorted by conversation (I use Outlook Express), and love it. But I don't get the dialog asking if I'm sure I want to delete the conversation. I also wish there was a way to read by conversation starting from oldest to newest, but with my program, when I'm in a message and hit delete, it automatically puts me into the next message, which might be the beginning of a different conversation; so I look at conversations from newest to oldest.
Okay, I'll quit, since this isn't GPS related, but I enjoy any tips people have to offer to make sorting and reading messages go faster. And yes, sorting by conversation has been a great help to me. 

Peggy
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles LaPierre" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 8:49 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Sorting Messages:



No worries Mary Ellen,
Wouldn't the suggestions you pose only work with a specific email client? I don't think I have this option under Eudora... But then again maybe I need to update my old email client and get something a little more modern ;) 

Thanks
Charles.

At 08:36 AM 11/23/2008, you wrote:
Guys in the view menu alt v, you can sort your e-mail by conversations. In doing this you get the top message of any conversation and when you delete this message you will get the message Messages in this conversation will be deleted, do you want to continue? If you press y for yes, you delete the entire grouping of messages under that particular topic. If not, simply press your right arrow and the conversation grouping will open and you can read to your heart's content. I have had my e-mail set this way for years and it has cut my time in reading e-mail by 2/3. Also if you find you don't want say Mary Ellen Earls' messages, you can go and block Ms Earls so any messages this chatty old lady sends out go into your deleted messages box. Mike and Charles, I do hope I am not overstepping my boundaries here but I just wanted to make people aware of these 2 options, so pardon me if I have strayed too far here. 
Mary Ellen Earls


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