Gmail groups all replies with their original message, creating a single conversation or thread, popularly known as Conversation View. In Conversation View, each new message stacked on top of the ones that arrived before it, so that the newest message is always the one you see first. Conversation view helps to keep the mailbox tidy and compact which otherwise may be cluttered. The email threading and grouping also makes reading and replying the email messages easier.

Since the début of Gmail 6 years ago in 2004, conversation view has been mandatory with no option to disable or turn off the email threading conversation view. Which was a turn-off for many people who hate Conversation View and wants to view their inbox in the traditional way. Taking into consideration those users, Gmail has now made conversation view an optional feature, thus offering more control to its users. Now any user who wants e-mail messages viewable in the traditional way, i.e, all messages and replies split and listed by date sequentially in the mailbox can disable and turn off the conversation view. [Read more...]