Message Grouping

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Beginning with Thunderbird version 0.9, the Message Grouping (Group by Sort) feature lets you organize messages in the message list into self-contained groups according to attributes such as date, sender or priority. For instance, if you set your Inbox to group messages by date, the messages will be organized into folder-like groups labelled Today, Yesterday, Last Week, and so on. You can expand or collapse each group by clicking on the small +/- mark next to the group label. (screenshot)

Messages can be grouped according to date, priority, sender, recipient, status, subject, or label. To group messages, first click on the folder that you want to use (such as your Inbox) and sort the messages in your preferred way: either click on a column heading such as "Date" in the message-list pane, or make a selection from "View -> Sort by". Then select "View -> Sort by -> Grouped By Sort" or simply press the letter "G" on your keyboard. To turn off message grouping, click on any column heading in the message-list pane or choose a different sort order from "View -> Sort by".

Other information

  • Message grouping works on a per-folder basis. For example, message grouping that you apply to the Inbox folder will not be applied to the Sent folder or any other folders.
  • Message grouping does not currently work with Saved Search folders.