I think this idea to sort threads by the date of the most recent message contributing to the thread is a very useful one, quite a logical one too. /Pawel
On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 5:35 PM Peter Bloomfield < [email protected]> wrote: > On 08/01/2018 05:04:29 PM Wed, Jack via balsa-list wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Too much idle time, perhaps, but I've been musing on mailbox sorting. I > mostly use JWZ sorting, with increasing dates. This groups messages per > the JWZ algorithm, and then sorts the groups by the increasing date of the > first message in the group. If I click on the date colulmn header, it > simply reverses the order of presentation of the groups. In other words, > the ordering within groups is not changed, but now the groups are sorted by > the decreasing date of the first message in the group. > > > > I have several mailboxes (mainly various mailing lists) where I'd like > to maintain the message order within the groups as above, but sort the > groups by the date of the most recent message in the group - either > increasing or decreasing. This would bring the most recently active > threads to the top or bottom of the list. > > A new GitLab issue[0] has been opened to continue the discussion, and a > new branch (thread-date) has a modified sort algorithm, with threads sorted > by the date of the most recent message in the thread (its 'thread-date'). > Testing and comments welcome! > > Peter > > [0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/issues/4 > _______________________________________________ > balsa-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list >
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