I have Outlook 2003 and setup my Gmail account in it. Is there any way to customize Outlook so it will have all the conversations from the same person in one big email entry? I found a way to sort the emails by conversations but I still have to click through multiple emails to open each one instead of having all the replies in on big message (like in Gmail).

Also, does anyone know how to sync the email deletions between Gmail and Outlook? I even emptied out my Deleted Items folder in Outlook but it's still in the Gmail server. I searched and others just said to download the messages from Gmail and set the option for the downloaded emails to be deleted...it's a workaround that I want to avoid for now.

Thanks.