✉️ Avoid receiving emails in the same thread

Sometimes, notification emails from your form can arrive in the same email conversation/thread (for example, Gmail groups them together).

If you want each submission to appear as a separate email, follow the steps below.


✅ Why emails go into the same thread

Email services (like Gmail) may group messages into one thread when the emails have similar values such as:

  • the same Subject

  • the same From name/email

  • the same recipient

  • repeated message headers (email identifiers)

So even if customers submit multiple times, your inbox may show them as a single conversation.


✅ Solution: Make the subject unique for every submission

The easiest way is to add a dynamic value to the email subject, such as:

  • submission time

  • customer name

  • customer email

✅ Example subjects

  • New Contact Form Submission - {{email}}

  • New Submission from {{first_name}} - {{created_at}}

  • Form submission #{{submission_id}}

When the subject changes, most email clients will stop grouping them into the same thread.


🛠️ Steps to update your email subject (in PowerfulForm)

  1. Open the app > click Forms > open the form you want to edit

  2. Click Mail icon on the left > click Admin

  3. Click the Form inputs icon next to the email Subject field > select one variable to add it to the email subject. This will make the email subject different for each customer

  1. Click Save to update the changes

✅ New submissions will now arrive as separate emails.


🧪 Test it

  1. Submit the form twice using different test data

  2. Check your inbox

  3. Confirm each submission appears as a separate email.

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