411482 - new message in a thread should move that thread to the top

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 262319

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[César Martínez Izquierdo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.9 (20071031)

Hello,
I use the following ordering settings: Threaded, By date, Descending.

When a new message arrives to an old thread, the thread remains in the same position in the message list, so the new message is not easily found.

Instead of this behaviour, I would expect that the thread would be moved to the top of the message list (that is, the thread would move to the position corresponding to the last message in the thread).

At least, I would expect this behaviour to be configurable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check the position of an old thread in the message list
2. Send a new message to that old thread

Actual Results:  
The new message is added to the thread, but the thread remains in the same position within the message list

Expected Results:  
The new message is added to the thread and the thread is the moved to the position correspoding to the date of the new message (so the thread is moved to the top of the message list)