I would really like to work with the most recent mail at the top of the summary window, but if I do that and also use the threaded view, the individual messages within the thread are in some order that my brain just can't accept :-). It would be nice if there was a way to set the sort order within a thread tree independent of the sort order of the roots of the threads.
Created attachment 1648 [details] Always sort by date ASC within a thread when by thread date When sorting by date descendingly, it doesn't really make sense to sort messages within a thread any other way than ascendingly (regardless of sort order), since most will already be done so, due to their parent/children relationship. So, when sorting by thread date we sort messages within a thread by date ascendingly, regardless of current sort order.
Created attachment 1710 [details] Always sort by date ASC within a thread when by thread date v2: Only when threaded (i.e. using "Thread View" mode) Also a bump: any reviews/comments on this?
(In reply to Tom Horsley from comment #0) > It would be nice if there was a way to set the sort order within a thread tree > independent of the sort order of the roots of the threads. It doesn't make sense to me for threaded emails to be sorted in descending order. So I think in threaded view, the emails inside a thread should be sorted in ascending order BY DEFAULT, but I will be happy if there were an option. (In reply to Olivier Brunel from comment #2) Thanks for the patch. Simple, and works as expected. I hope it gets merged soon, or at the very least, reviewed.