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Which one do you use? I'm really curious if there's an alternative workflow that is just as good as GMail-view, or people just learn to accept the limitations.

I don't use threads, because people in my business are very active in sending the whole history in EACH mail, and others communications have a web-frontend.

But if you need threading so much, you could also just move your send mails with the rest of the mails, there is a setting with the server-confg, which defines what is to be done with send mails, which by default saves a copy in the Sent-folder. You could also check out filters and labels.

And looking at the roadmap of thunderbird, there is some plan about a global database, which reads as if this might allow a Gmail-style frontend somewhere in the future. So maybe next year threading might a more solved problem..

because people in my business are very active in sending the whole history in EACH mail,

Unfortunately that quoted history is not easily navigable and doesn't include attachments.

there is a setting with the server-confg, which defines what is to be done with send mail

I looked into it, but it unfortunately only applies to future messages sent. Typing this I just realized that I could maybe move my existing sent messages into the uber-folder, I'll give that a try.

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