Is there a preference for this or something? Please? I sometimes leave messages in my inbox unread. Say that I have 100 unread messages (# 1 - 100). If I fetch e-mail and it fetches 5 more, I want the selected message to be the first of the five messages I just received. Instead it navigates to the oldest unread message. In other words, it goes all the way back to number 1 of 105. I want it to select message # 101. This is a major navigation fail. I have my reasons for leaving those messages unread and I would really appreciate it if claws worked with me on this and did not punish me for it. :-)
Take a look at "Set default selection when entering a folder" button in preferences, Display->Summaries page. Next time, please use our mailing list for similar questions. Bugzilla is for reporting bugs, not asking how to do something.
*** Bug 3569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I am sorry, but "Display->Summaries" did not strike me as being relevant for this issue. I thought "Mail Handling -> Receiving" was more relevant. I have been using e-mail for a long time and it has never occurred to me to call the message list a "summary list". And the "Set default selection when entering a folder" does not seem right, either, even when you say that that is the option, and even when it works. I mean, I am not actually entering a folder. I am already in the folder. New mail is entering the folder. So.... I will, next time, ask the mailing list. But these options are sufficiently mis-labeled that I would call this a bug. There should be an option in 'Mail Handling -> Receiving': Selection upon receiving mail: ( ) Leave selection unchanged ( ) Select newly received mail message Again, I am not entering a folder, so the preference you describe does not make sense. Yes, that might be what the implementation suggests, but users are not reading the code base.
see here for places you ask questionns and discuss matters: http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php