Hi,
Some comments.
Generally, I found the old format to be very good for navigating, and I
would like to have the new one match the old one as closely as possible.
1) the by date monthly list of mails used to be ordered newest to oldest
mails first, now it is oldest to newest, so when dealing with new stuff one
has to always scroll dow
Also important if one just wants to search; it is often the newest
(or newer) message that is of interest.
2) the dates and times of mails used to be shown (date as a section in the
list, times in the left column), now there is nothing, so without clicking
something it is hard to guess how exactly old it is
I concur, that is irritating. You can guess, but you don't get the same
sort of what's happening just from a glance.
3) the columns were nicer (date, subject left justified, email right
justified, now there are no columns)
This does make it harder to see what's what, true.
4) some headers were shown, now there is nothing
Yep.
5) emails used to be sanitized against harvesters, now they aren't
Surely, there is a feature for this?
6) there used to be a Raw text URL to grab the raw email, now there is nothing
This is something that I have rarely used.
As far as the advantages go: A per-thread view is nice, but I don't
think having it outweighs the disadvantages above.
From my personal preference, having 1), 2) and 3) (basically, let the
new interface look like the old one) would be great.
Regards
Thomas
