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How to Use Hoyamail: Viewing Messages in Conversations

Hoyamail messages are grouped into conversations so that all follow-ups and responses appear as a single line in your inbox. Hoyamail basically groups all replies to a message with the original message, creating a single conversation or thread.

So a conversation is a group of messages with the same subject line, and includes any messges you reply to and forward. Any time you reply to or forward a message, you'll see each message in the conversation when you view that conversation.

In other e-mail clients, responses are often displayed as separate messages in your inbox, forcing you to wade through all your mail to follow the conversation. In Hoyamail, however, replies to replies (and replies to those replies) are displayed in one place, and in order, making it easier to understand the context of a message - or to follow the conversation.

When you open one message in a conversation, all of your related messages will be stacked neatly on top of each other, like a deck of cards. We call this "Conversation View." In Conversation View, each new message is stacked on top of the ones that arrived before it, so that the newest message is always the one you see first.

When viewing a message, to see all the messages in a conversation, just click Expand all.  It will appear on the upper right side of the message window. 

For more information you can review Gmail Help about Conversations.

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