What Marco said has always been the case for myself as well, whether on my phone or my desktop, read messages have always appeared as closed... tabs, I guess, while unread messages are open, with the focus on the oldest unread message and the newer messages expanded underneath.
If you use several devices (phone, tablet, computer) all the changes are synced locally on Googles end, so if you read two messages in a conversation on your phone, and three more messages come in and you open Gmail on your pc, those first two messages you read will be "tabbed" shut, and the newest three messages will be open, with focus on the third message. As far as the snippets go, I believe that the main, or original message in the conversation is displayed until a set number of messages are in the conversation. I just opened another thread from this group that had five messages, and the snippet displayed the original message. When I went box to my inbox however, the fifth messages snippet was displayed, while in this conversation your snippet was displayed IvyNut, and not Marcos, even though I have already read both of these messages. Will experiment more and see what I can find out. Cheers On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Marko Vukovic <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi > > Please don't 'shout' here. We are just fellow users like yourself. A > simple hello before your rant would also be nice. > > As I understand it, when you click on a conversation, Gmail will 'focus' > on the first unread message in the thread, not the latest received. > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:04 PM, IvyNut <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am incredibly frustrated with Gmail. I liked that emails from same >> address are grouped into conversations displayed in tabs. But lately, >> everytime I open one of the conversations it will open to a random email >> within that conversation, but never the last one received, which is >> incredibly annoying because you then have to keep closing tabs until you >> get to the last one... EVERYTIME YOU CHECK YOUR NEW MAIL. And the snippet >> of the message you see in the inbox is also the first and oldest email on >> that conversation or just a random one. Ugh, I've looked everywhere in the >> settings and nothing seems to fix this, there doesn't seem to be a logic >> behind it either, it just randomly picks whichever message and then you >> seem to be stuck with it, cause that's the one you will see FOREVER. >> >> This is ridiculous! >> >> I don't understand, I've used it for years but I feel like we're going >> backwards. THIS IS NOT USER FRIENDLY AT ALL. Please tell me there is a way >> to fix this or that 'm blind and can't find the right setting to fix this >> because otherwise, I'm done. I'm switching to another email client. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Marko > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- M i c h a e l M e t h o t - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Home: 647 547 9313 ■ Cell: 647 768 9313 ■ [email protected]* * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
