648851 - Change search order from oldest mail to newest mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 297251

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Jakob Bagterp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; da; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9

When using the filter search, the search starts with the oldest mail of the archive, which rarely are the most relevant of the search when having >50 mails. More likely, it's the newest mail. Thus, I suggest changing how Thunderbird searches folders to new-old from old-new.

Also, changing the search order will make the listing sequence more fluent: The window starts empty while stacking new filtered items below the first result.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open filter search of a folder
2. Type a name that is often used
3. Press enter
Actual Results:  
In the relevant results sequence, the last mail is shown first, while newer mails stack the list above.

Expected Results:  
Reverse the search sequence: Search the newest mails first.