1. At a computer system, a method for performing an electronic mail conversation operation, the method comprising: an act of receiving an indication that an operation is to be performed on an electronic mail conversation; an act of identifying one or more electronic mail messages included in the electronic mail conversation; an act of accessing the identified one or more electronic mail messages included in the electronic mail conversation; and an act of performing a corresponding related operation on each of the identified one or more electronic mail messages in response to the received indication that the operation is to be performed on the electronic mail conversation.