On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:37:05AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Since I switched to mutt full time a couple of months ago, there were > times when I missed one feature or another from other agents, but mostly > I learned to live with the mutt way. > > However, this one keeps getting on my frail nerves. There seems to be > no way in vanilla mutt to sort the index view such that the latest > message appears last, when threading is on. So when I open a folder > with a long active thread, I keep landing in the middle of old inactive > threads.
Would writing a folder-hook with <first-entry><next-new-then-unread> alleviate the pain? I have it on and it's a breeze to go through new messages (using <Tab> for subsequent next-new-email).