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I'm setting up Alpine with 10.10 with my gmail account. However, I am having difficulty setting up the threaded view of email (as in gmail). At setup, and in the config menu, I have selected the threading display style to "show-thread-structure." Nonetheless, I get a normal view of email in my inbox, with individual emails displayed separately even if they belong to the same thread.

Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this?

Jorge Castro
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Akhil Mathew
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In alpine's setup (Main - Settings -> Config).

You may need to pick a "Threading Display Style". I'm not sure what the default is, I have 'mutt-like'.

Then, when viewing a folder, hit $ (Sort) and H (tHread).

I remember some issues with gmail and threading, I think that the threaded view in gmail is not dependent upon the "In-Reply-To" header that alpine (and other clients read and write). gmail's threaded index is more complex, using primarily subject (that is all from memory, it could be out of date).

Jorge Castro
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    When sorting by thread with gmail in alpine, I notice that threads are sorted chronologically by the arrival of the thread's initiating message. Is there a way to sort threads based on the arrival time of the last message of the thread? – user001 Jul 27 '12 at 06:41
  • @user001 yes there is a way. basically you just need to first sort by arrival time, then sort by thread. That is: first, $ A (then maybe you need to reverse it with $ R). then $ H – KFL May 30 '22 at 07:46