Mail and threaded conversation view

I just started using Mail again (after Google decided to mothball Sparrow) and am generally liking ing. I don't know if my question here is ML-specific, but here goes.
I am a little confused about the conversation/threaded view. I like that the separate messages in the thread are separated and not all run together (the way GMail does). However, when you have a multi-person conversation going on, how do you tell who each individual message is from? (Obviously, this isn't a problem with an email message thread only involving yourself and one other person).
I don't see any place to turn on headers or something that would help identify the author of each message.
Hope that makes sense.
(See attached screenshot, which shows a email message thread between myself and 3 other people, some of whom didn't "reply all" to the original message).
Thanks.

Set the "Show Header Detail" option in the "Viewing" tab of the "Mail" preferences to something different from "None". I use a custom setting to select the header lines that I want.
Regards
Léonie

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"Many of my messages are put in the same thread just because they share the same subject name. I suppose there is a way to fix it since Gmail was handling it right. I will be glad to know how, if anyone knows."
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What happens if you tweak the settings on the 'normal' version of GMail, do these changes get carried over to the app?
I would try this myself, but I've put GMail in the ice making compartment on my phone, I found it to be a little resource hungry and being as it came on the phone, tis a little (insert word of your choice) to get rid of.
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