Emails as conversation

Email messages can be displayed as conversations in the CRM. When replying and forwarding, the system supplies the mail headers “Reply-To” and “References” with the mail ID of the original e-mail from the direct dispatch with the CRM via the connected mail server. This way, conversations can be displayed, and checked in emails can be automatically linked to projects.

Messages with the same subject and which are responded to with "Reply" are considered a conversation. You can quickly check and edit individual messages or entire conversations.

The display of an email "conversation" can be found in the Conversation tab of the email. In this tab, the outgoing emails (blue) are displayed in the list on the left and the text of the selected email on the right. In the detail form of the conversation, attachments and follow-up activities are displayed in multiple lines, just like in the mailbox.

In the activity sub-lists (e.g. of a contact), you can recognize conversations if you select the type "... Correspondences or "Customer communication" in the quick filter and then select the e-mail in the list or in the tree. You will then see a preview of the e-mail in the right-hand detail form. If this is part of a conversation, the Conversation button in the detail form is active and you can open the conversation in a modal window.

Note: There are scenarios in which the conversation cannot be maintained properly. For example, if you reply to an email in the CRM, then it is transferred to Outlook, sent from there, and checked in again because when you export, no data regarding the conversation can be transferred to Outlook. If, however, you reply to the email in Outlook and then transfer it to the CRM by using of "Send and synchronize", it is possible to represent conversations. Therefore, we recommend to always use "Send Direct" from the CRM.

Automatic project linking when checking in emails

When checking in a conversation, the relevant main projects are automatically sug­gested.

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Admin: This feature can be controlled with the variable PSA_IMP_EMA_LNK_CNV_PRO.

In this variable, the values NONE, MAIN, ALL, LAST and LASTALL can be used to fine-tune which projects are determined from the conversation and suggested as assignments.

  • NONE: No project assignment
  • MAIN: Only main projects (default in the standard). The main project of the most recent email is assigned as the main project. Deviating main projects of other emails of the conversations are assigned as side projects.
  • LAST: Only the main project of the last email.
  • ALL: Main projects and all other projects
  • LASTALL: Takes over the main project and all other projects in the most recent email if a task or project versioning occurs in the course of a conversation, and old versions should not be carried over unnecessarily.