Hi Shen and all, The sorting of conversations can be toggled in Preferences, actually. Look at the bottom of the view tab for "Show Most Recent Message at the Top." Uncheck that and you'll get the old behavior. Best, Zack. On Jul 23, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Shen wrote:
> There is still the question about sorting your messages. > If you sort your messages by date in 1 order, messages in conversations are > sorted in reverse. For example, if all your messages are sorted in ascending > order, expand a conversation and the messages in that conversation are sorted > in descending. > Personally, when I expand a conversation, I prefer to start from the first > message of the thread, not at the last. I prefer to read a conversation from > the beginning forward instead from from the end backward. > This was not the case in SL. Can't figure out why they decide to reverse it > inside a conversation. > Am I the only person that likes it the previous way? > > On Jul 22, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Marc Workman wrote: > >> Don't bother with a hot spot on the mailbox list. You can simply shift tab >> and tab to go back and forth between the mailbox list and the message table. >> >> I did end up setting a hot spot for the search field since, unlike in SL, >> you don't seem to be able to tab into the search field. >> >> Best, >> >> Marc >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Westbrook" <westbch...@gmail.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:46 PM >> Subject: Re: conversations in new mail >> >> >> No, I just tried it, it works in the regular view, with the caveat that you >> must use vo+up and down arrow to move through the messages when in the >> message content area. also if you set a hot spot on the mailbox list I >> think you can get there a lot quicker. >> On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: >> >>> Hi Shameless, >>> A small caveat here. THis seems to only really work in Classic view, but >>> is otherwise very sound advice. I appreciate it. >>> Best and thanks, >>> Zack. >>> On Jul 22, 2011, at 7:37 PM, Shameless FanGirl wrote: >>> >>>> You don't, and can in fact merely tab over once you're sitting on the >>>> thread you want to view. This will get you to a list of messages within >>>> that thread, from where you can either use left and right, or up and down >>>> arrows to navigate through them. To return to the threads list, either use >>>> VO left arrow, or shift tab. For the record, to return to the list of >>>> inboxes, stop interacting with the message list, (for me, this requires >>>> two presses of VO shift up arrow), and VO left twice to return to your >>>> list of mailboxes. >>>> >>>> I HTH guys >>>> On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi CHris, >>>>> The area you mention is accessible if you don't expand a conversation, >>>>> but instead stop interacting and move right. I'm not sure what goes on >>>>> visually in conversation view, but it occurs to me you might not need to >>>>> expand them all that often actually. Experimentation is in order. >>>>> Best, >>>>> Zack. >>>>> On Jul 22, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Chris Westbrook wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I just wanted to say I'm getting used to the new conversation view in >>>>>> mail. The way i do it now is to expand a conversation I'm interested in >>>>>> and then down arrow to the first message. Then I do a vo+j to go to the >>>>>> preview pane and then read the message, then I either delete it or do a >>>>>> vo+j again to go to the message list to select another message. My >>>>>> question is that it seems that if you're not focused on a message within >>>>>> the conversation, if you stop interacting with the message list and then >>>>>> vo+right arrow a couple of times the message content area displays all >>>>>> the messages in a conversation, one per line. I tried to set a hotspot >>>>>> there but I can't get to it from the message list. IS there a quick hot >>>>>> key to get to the area I am thinking of? 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