Comment 11 for bug 671746

I will join the chorus in voting for a Gmail-like Conversation view. I'm also very much against a Hierarchical/Tree-like view that most mail clients provide, and which usually wastes a lot of screen, is confusing and generally not very useful.

Having used Gmail's interface for a while, now, I believe that following discussions/conversations (either personal, professional or public on mailing lists) makes sense only when all (related) e-mails under a subject (both sent and received) are grouped together in a chronological order. This saves space, simplifies and renders the e-mail list view easy to inspect. It also makes it easy to follow the flow of a thread/discussion in an intuitive manner.

The only issue that comes to mind with the Conversation view is when a message is sent to a mailing list and received back by the sender from the mailing list (mentioned in the description). However strange, it still makes sense to receive a confirmation that the sender's message was effectively distributed to the list. In my opinion this shouldn't be a blocker.