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It continues to baffle me that GMail is the only client* with all-in-a-page threaded email. Some desktop apps make a stab at it, but generally limit it to some kind of highlighting by subject line. Even if it didn't have the search, I'd stay with Gmail for that.

* Well, Zoe had a go, but was always buggy and now seems dead.

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Mutt has email threads. It had them for as long as I've been using it (6+ years). It also has regex search and selection, besides other things...

Mutt's threads aren't all-in-a-page; you only see one message at a time.

Yes, you are correct. Though in mutt you can hit 'n'/'p' while reading a message in a thread and you will move to the next/previous email in the threading order. I would imagine one would need to use scrolling in gmail for any substantial thread which results in a pretty similar experience (i.e., you only see one or two emails at a time).

Maybe he wants incremental search on the content.

Anyhow, I prefer threaded + n/p myself. For complicated discussions (like at work) it's much better to see exactly which mail is in reply to which (not just time based).

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