283874 - display message threads ordering is wrong

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Eric J. Schwarzenbach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

Display message threads should order by latest message in thread not first. As
it operates now, threads with new activity do not show up at front (the new end)
of the list, they simply stack under the first message in the thread wherever in
the list that was. You want activity on a thread to bring it to the front where
you'll see it, not leave it pages back where you'll never notice it. Note that
GMail gets this feature right.

You may argue that this is an enhancement request, but I consider it a bug...the
current behavior is simply bad and significantly diminishes the usefulness of
the feature.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

I think what you're looking for works if you set
user_pref("mailnews.thread_pane_column_unthreads", false); in prefs.js or
user.js in the profile and click on the Date column.

Comment 2

[Eric J. Schwarzenbach]

Excellent! Yes, that seems to do it. So I guess my enhancement request becomes
"this ought to be the default and/or an option in the preferences dialog." I'd
suggest the latter because I really can't imagine why someone would want to make
it operate the other way (but maybe there is some usecase I'm failing to imagine).

Comment 3

[Eric J. Schwarzenbach]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Excellent! Yes, that seems to do it. So I guess my enhancement request becomes
> "this ought to be the default and/or an option in the preferences dialog." I'd
> suggest the latter because I really can't imagine why someone would want to make
> it operate the other way (but maybe there is some usecase I'm failing to imagine).

Whoops, I meant "former" rather than "latter."

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Excellent! Yes, that seems to do it. So I guess my enhancement request becomes
> "this ought to be the default and/or an option in the preferences dialog." 

This is an option in the preference dialog for the Suite, but not (yet) for 
Thunderbird; see bug 234690 comment 14.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 340304 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Bug 262316 has fixed problem in order of mails in a thread when "View/Sort by"=Date.
Does the fix resolve this bug? Check with latest trunk nightly, please. 

Comment 7

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Marking fixed based on comment 6; if the issue is not actually resolved, feel free to reopen this.