[sylpheed:36438] Re: Threads and sorting by date

[uhel at gmx.net]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:39:49 +0200
Antonio Ospite <ao2 at ao2.it> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:31:28 -0400
> "James D. Amberger" <jim at jimamberger.name> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
Hello all,
>
I think what James want is the behaviour that the newest posting is on top when
sorting by date, not at the bottom (except if it's already sorted by date). 

I want that that too :)

kind regards 
uhel

> 
> Hi James,
> 
> > Apologies if this is a known issue/addressed elsewhere but I'm about to get on
> > a plane and wanted to jot this down before I forgot about it. 
> > 
> > If you have enabled threading and you sort by date, the threads seem to get
> > sorted by the first message in the thread, rather than the most recent. This
> > seems like not the behavior most users would expect/desire. 
> > 
> 
> You can sort according to the most recent message in a thread, just
> choose the right option in the main menu:
> 
> 	View -> Sort -> by thread date
> 
> Ciao ciao,
>    Antonio
> 
> P.S.
> JFYI, your domain name jimamberger.name does not seem to have an MX
> record configured, some picky MTAs might refuse to send emails to such
> addresses.
> 
> -- 
> Antonio Ospite
> http://ao2.it
> 
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?


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