228435 - Refer Bug 20385: Request to make this dynamic and automatic update

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Nikunj Bansal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

Refer Bug 20385:

Although the fix for that is working great for sorting the threads based on the
date of the newest message recvd, can this be done dynamically. So that the
threads get rearranged automatically in the current folder's header view pane.
Currently, the user has to switch folders and back to see the threads move up or
down.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Sort threads based on newest message received (Thread and then select
View/Sort By/Date)
2. Send a message to urself in one of the threads which is midway
3. When the message arrives, the threads are not reordered. But switching to
another folder and back to inbox shows the updated ordering

Actual Results:  
When a new message arrives, the threads are not reordered. But switching to
another folder and back to inbox shows the updated ordering


Expected Results:  
Request to make the header view pane reorder threads dynamically upon message
reception.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

I think this could cause a lot of jumping around in the thread pane!

Comment 2

[Nikunj Bansal]

It will cause a lot of jumping around only if one is receiving email at a fast
rate! In case of pop downloads or even Imap syncs at startup, the reordering
could take place once all the messages have been downloaded/headers synced. For
messages received once online, the dynamic reordering should not pose visual
problems for the user given that emails are not received every second. OutLook
implements this neatly.. I think they are called Conversations there and it
works just fine.