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Relativity 8 Updates: Email Threading

Rebecca Schwab

Welcome to Relativity 8. Our newest release includes a lot of new features, and we’re excited about all of them. Over the next few weeks, we’ll highlight these features right here on the blog. Check back often to learn more about what’s new in Relativity 8.

Enhancements to Relativity Analytics include email threading, which can allow users to significantly reduce the number of their emails that need to be reviewed during e-discovery, as well as make necessary reviews more efficient. Here’s a look at what you can do with email threading:

Organize email conversations together.
Identifying email strings prevents similar emails from being scattered throughout the document population.

Identify inclusive emails. 
The last email in a conversation usually contains all of the text from previous messages. These emails are marked as inclusive in Relativity 8, making them easy to identify and eliminating the need to review redundant copies.

Flag emails with attachments.
Inclusive records aren’t limited to the last email in a thread. Relativity 8 marks emails as inclusive based on their content as well as the content of their attachments.  As a result, any email that contains an attachment which does not appear elsewhere in the thread will be marked as inclusive, ensuring it will not be missed. 

Email threading fits cleanly into effective workflows. For example, once the threads have been identified, you can batch out inclusive records to reviewers using a saved search that returns documents where Inclusive Email is Yes, and Duplicate Email Spare is No. You can also avoid breaking threads across different batches by using Email Thread Group as the family field, or use the Group Identifier field to only include attachments. Combining email threading with other new features—such as textual near duplicate identification—can streamline your workflows even further.

To learn more about email threading in Relativity 8, and please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.


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