http://zeitlin.homeunix.com/cgi-bin/mbugs/show_bug.cgi?id=870
Summary: Sorting and threading interact sometimes in counter-
intuitive ways
Product: Mahogany
Version: from CVS
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: P3
Component: Message viewer
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ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is an unfortunate interaction between threading and sorting.
(This is threading on a local mbox-file)
I have threading on and at the same time the messages sorted by date. (Most
recent on top) With this situation, the first message in the thread seem to
indicate the date, which is used for the sorting. (This will "usually" be
the oldest in the thread)
At the same time, I have folders with a bunch of mail I didn't even open
So on many folders the count of unread messages doesn't say much...
In comes another message (a response to a thread which has been going on for
quite a while) which is really urgent. But instead of showing up (with the
whole thread) near the top, it gets buried in the folder waaay down.
Could the threading/sorting-interaction please be changed in the following
way: Threading is done first, in the "usual" way. Sorting comes as a second
step. Sorting regards the whole thread as one entity. (As it already does)
For sorting by date or size the algorithm is changed so that:
- For sorting ascending, find the message in the thread with the smallest
attribute used for the sorting. The sort-order of the whole thread is
according to this finding. (Inside the thread the messages still stay in
the threading-order)
- For sorting decending, find the bigest attribute in the thread.
(For other sort criteria besides size and date, the sorting is still done
accoring to the oldest message in the thread)
> But there is something else... Considering the newest message to tag the
> entire thread means that any incoming message may move a whole thread.
> Not very nice if it happens when you're looking at this thread or
> another nearby...
Yes, I see the point (but didn't think of it). Mainly because I have no
permanent internet-connection and are doing the download using fetchmail.
So this should be probably made just a new configuration option.
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