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I had a mail chain with a subject "Hi". Later I got another email with the same subject but unrelated to the previous mail chain. Gmail grouped these two together.

How can I avoid 2 different mail chains being grouped together based on just their subject in Gmail?

I do not want to disable grouping as it makes mail management easier. Just that 2 completely different chains shouldn't be grouped!

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Currently, this is not possible with Gmail. It uses the subject line as the unique identifier of a conversation and nothing else. A lot of people have been requesting this feature for several years however.

You can't even label individual messages in a conversation... which would be a possible temporary solution to your problem.

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As Lex said, there's no fix for this, but you should go ahead and "suggest" this as a feature so maybe one day we'll have it!

You can, however, delete single messages from a conversation and at very least easily isolate one conversation that way. Then you could also forward all messages trashed into a new conversation by adding a new subject. Far from ideal, but at least it's something. This was not possible since the beginning and it was a new feature about a year ago.

If you remove from trash the deleted messages they'll automatically get attached to the same conversation again.

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Google finanlly implemented this change. Go to email opions/General. Switch conversation view to off. Details at this link:

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=5900

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Disabling conversation view is not exactly "new". Plus, the OP has already stated he doesn't want to do that. – Al Everett Apr 20 '12 at 13:08

Go into the Settings -> General, and switch off "Conversation view"

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Please note that the OP has already said that he/she does not want to turn off conversation view. – Al Everett Jul 18 '12 at 12:57

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