Patent attributes
Functionality is disclosed for providing and displaying an indication as to a position within a message that is currently being displayed within a message conversation that includes multiple messages. A personal information management (PIM) client application or another type of messaging application receives the messages in the conversation. The conversation is parsed, by either the PIM client application or a PIM server application that forwarded the messages in the conversation to the PIM client application, in order to determine sizes and beginnings of the multiple messages. As a message is displayed within the conversation, a message position indicator is displayed that indicates the position within the message relative to the size of the message. The position represents the portion of the message that is currently being displayed. The message position indicator resets when the beginning of a new message is displayed.