Gmail – What exactly is a conversation in Gmail

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Apologies if this has been already answered somewhere here, but I really can't understand/find what is the actual notion of conversation in Gmail.

According to Google:

Gmail groups all replies with their original message, creating a single conversation or thread.

Anyway I have seen that sending two emails with the same "Merry Xmas" subject groups them in a conversation too.

Where can I find a formal definition of conversation or, put it differently, what are the rules to group message A and B under the same conversation?

Best Answer

Replies to emails and forwards of emails make up conversations.

When a subject is changed, that breaks the conversation.

For some reason, e-mails with the same title may get grouped into a conversation.

However, there isn't a way that I know of to group individual emails into a conversation.

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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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