Gmail sort or group by sender

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I am trying to cleanup my inbox. I have searched everywhere, and everyone is suggesting to create filters or search yourself which is totally impractical.

Is there any way in Gmail to sort or group emails by sender? Mailstorm online service seems to do that (allows grouping by sender, subject etc) but it is not free. Can this be achieved with Gmail itself?

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Gmail only sorts by date descending. Obviously you can filter by lots of different things, including sender, using the search options, but that's going to be a little impractical if you just want to group all of your messages rather than seek out specific senders.

You'd need to use a third-party tool. Most email clients will let you do that. I've used Thunderbird in the past, but most other email clients should do what you're looking for. It's just a question of getting them to talk to Gmail. (Which is outside the scope of this site.)

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Gmail now has a feature to disable conversation view. Its under the General tab in settings. Unfortunately it disables conversations for the entire account. There's no way to selectively break conversations. The best you could do would be to use IMAP to access the problematic messages and rewrite them.

Gmail not grouping messages with the same subject from Google Groups

As a bit of a spoiler, we tested this last night. I have two email address (which I will call for the sake of example "test1@gmail.com" and "test2@gmail.com"), and then we did this:

To:      Rebecca <Recip@gmail.com>
From:    My Name <test1@gmail.com>
Subject: this is a test
Body:  blah blah whatever

and additionally

To:      Rebecca <Recip@gmail.com>
From:    My Name <test1@gmail.com>
Subject: this is a test
Body:  this should nest under the other

and voila, they nested. No work required. And then we did this:

To:      Rebecca <Recip@gmail.com>
From:    My Name <test2@gmail.com>
Subject: this is a test
Body:  does this nest with the others?

And it didn't nest!

So in other words, two emails from the same sender with the same subject will nest. Two emails from two different addresses with the same subject will not nest.

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