On Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 18:24:34 CEST, Jan Kundrát wrote: > Fixing c) would not be trivial, but should be doable. It's just > that it's not easy to define what the sort order should be -- I > can definitely make it behave like THREAD=REFS by default, but > if the user selects e.g. sort by sender, do we want to take just > the thread roots into account, or do something like > max(subthread), similar to sorting by date? That's also the > reason why I implemented threading by disabling sorts > unconditionally. I should reflect that in the GUI in a clearer > way.
FTR: afaics "united internet" (gmx, web.de) supports only THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT Cheers, Thomas