diff --git a/lang/en/message.php b/lang/en/message.php
index 60993bc4ca6..5aa5f4e6083 100644
--- a/lang/en/message.php
+++ b/lang/en/message.php
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ $string['settings'] = 'Settings';
 $string['settingssaved'] = 'Your settings have been saved';
 $string['showmessagewindow'] = 'Popup window on new message';
 $string['strftimedaydatetime'] = '%A, %d %B %Y, %I:%M %p';
+$string['thisconversation'] = 'this conversation';
 $string['timenosee'] = 'Minutes since I was last seen online';
 $string['timesent'] = 'Time sent';
 $string['touserdoesntexist'] = 'You can not send a message to a user id ({$a}) that doesn\'t exist';
diff --git a/message/lib.php b/message/lib.php
index c3801e1fc0c..6fd8a46c684 100644
--- a/message/lib.php
+++ b/message/lib.php
@@ -813,6 +813,12 @@ function message_print_recent_conversations($user=null, $showicontext=false) {
 
     $conversations = message_get_recent_conversations($user);
 
+    // Attach context url information to create the "View this conversation" type links
+    foreach($conversations as $conversation) {
+        $conversation->contexturl = new moodle_url("/message/index.php?user2={$conversation->id}");
+        $conversation->contexturlname = get_string('thisconversation', 'message');
+    }
+
     $showotheruser = true;
     message_print_recent_messages_table($conversations, $user, $showotheruser, $showicontext);
 }