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Append Full Conversation History to Email Notications When Enabled / Add Deep Links to Conversation

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  • June 30, 2025
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This creates a frustrating user experience - the user gets an email that the conversation has been updated but they cannot see the entire thread within the email.  Here is a direct quote from an impacted customer:

Good morning - This new chat system makes emails almost worthless because we often can’t tell which issue your answer is associated with. I would imagine you already know this but below is a good example if you do not.

Proposed improvement #1: When a user is notified by email of an update to a conversation that they did not see in the messenger widget AND the company settings have conversation history enabled, send the entire history of the conversation.  See article below.

https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/3527623-sending-email-notifications-without-conversation-content-or-history

Specifically, this callout:

Important: If the email notification is sent because of user/lead inactivity from a conversation started from the Messenger, then it will only include the messages they haven't seen, not the full conversation history.

I am not sure what the business rule / reason for this is.  If the config has been set to include the enable conversation history, all of the history should be sent. 

Proposed Improvement #2: An alternative option might be to include a deep link to the conversation.   If the user clicks the link, they are taken to a detailed view of the conversation directly.

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  • February 27, 2026

We have the same issue as well, users get frustrated because they very often get a reply when not on our site, so the only thing they see is the email notification. Many users reply directly in their emails so they don’t have any context. 

You guys gotta include the original email. I have no context

No, I see no history in any of your messages.

Here’s what I saw for the first one. Nothing above / below:


The email notification does have a link to the messenger and so users can see the full conversation there. But many are not clicking those links and just want to reply over emails. 

So if there is any sort of security concerns or something like that, I would recommend to make a separate setting in Email Settings. Add a toggle below the setting about email notification to include conversation history or not.