Threaded email or not, now it’s your users’ choice in Gmail

Conversation view is perhaps Gmail’s most hotly debated feature. Threading enthusiasts say they spend less mental energy drawing connections between related messages and that their inboxes are much less cluttered. On the other hand, email traditionalists like many former Outlook users think conversation view just complicates something that has worked for years.

Because some people love conversation view, but naturally others want to keep using email in more familiar ways, Google is introducing another valuable choice. Users who prefer a traditional inbox can toggle off conversation view to see email as individual messages in chronological order. Some actions commonly associated with unthreaded email can be accomplished with searches in Gmail.

Over the next few days, Google will be rolling out conversation view settings to users in organizations with the “Enable pre-release features” option selected in the Google Apps control panel, and to individuals using Gmail.

Learn more about Google Apps – click here.

Source: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/threaded-email-or-not-now-its-your.html