On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 11:31 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > It's never been completely clear to me what these ordering really mean > when combined with threading.
I'm not so worried about the order in which different threads are displayed. But within a single thread it seems to me that whatever order is shown in the folder, should be the same order used by Evolution to choose the next message to display when it automatically moves to the next message (when the current message is deleted for example). > I have folders ordered by Received (Descending, i.e. the oldest thread > first) and this problem doesn't happen to me. I suspect the problem > has to do with wanting the most recent thread (i.e. the thread with > the most recent message) at the top but the messages within each > thread go from oldest to newest. That's why I order my mail Ascending instead of Descending, with the newest mail at the BOTTOM of the folder. Although it's a bit weird at first, this seems the most natural to me; it aligns the inter-thread order with the intra-thread order: both go from oldest at the top to newest at the bottom. Also, I like to read my email starting with the oldest new message and going to the newest new message: if you sort Descending this doesn't work because you read the oldest new message, which is at the end of the new messages, then delete it, and Evo automatically chooses the next message BELOW that in the list, which is the first message you already read. I want it to choose the next NEW message, which means it would need to go UP in the folder. Note this is a separate issue from the threading order. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
