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Re:.mail app by wonderzombie on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @02:44PM (#4292366)
Apple Mail has it. I think you can tell it whether you want to see newest-first or the reverse, as well.
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Re:.mail app by danneu on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:21PM (#4292541)
Actually, Mail.app's lack of conversation view was one of its definitive dealbreakers for me.

In particular, it doesn't include you or your sent mail in the conversation (http://i.imgur.com/Atkcu.png). It only lets you expand the email quotation to let you dig through nested context (http://i.imgur.com/1Zj2e.png).

Compare this to gmail (http://i.imgur.com/mLel3.png) that actually handles it as a conversation. It's one of the reasons I use Mailplane (thin wrapper around gmail) instead of Mail.app.

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Re:.mail app by taylorfausak on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:34PM (#4292616)
I too was frustrated by Mail.app's lack of a proper conversation view. Turns out, there's a setting to show messages you sent. In the "Viewing" section of Mail.app's preferences, enable "Include related messages". http://imgur.com/i5Eaq
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Re:.mail app by tamal on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:58PM (#4292721)
This seemingly minor preference is what makes Mail.app useable.
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Re:.mail app by ripap on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:35PM (#4292625)
Actually, Mail.app can include your own mail in a conversation, but only if you ask it to: select View->Show Related Messages.
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