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For years I have shunned the "Sent" folder, preferring to bcc myself on all posts. Why? Because then I can see conversations I've had in a single threaded view. And if I want to organise I can file whole threads easily. I don't have to go digging through separate folders to find "that reply I sent". If I do want to just see *just* my postings then a search filter is trivial.

However as luck has it. sometimes this system doesn't work. For example I use a different mail client or a different machine or a web client etc.

It would be nice if kmail could understand the different locations that sent mail can live (happy to tell it) and then provide a message list view that showed both sent and received messages in a threaded view, even if the messages actually resided in different folders.

You can enable KMail to store reply's in the same folder as the original message. This would lead to what you are looking for.

Take a look at gmail grouping option. There is connection between this idea and folder

@patch11
yes there are a few ways of doing this that are based on getting the messages in the right place when you send them. What I'm asking for is a way to manage it retrospectively - because I'm not always using the same, carefully configured desktop

@lukas
I'm not sure about the gmail grouping option. How do I find it? Closest I found was
Aggregation button->configure->groups and threading. But no "gmail" option.
Curious - thanks

@andre_orwell
I was writing to patch11. Sorry if you understand that kmail already has such option