From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: When viewing messages using a threaded view, threads with new messages are not moved to the top (or bottom, depending on sort). Instead, sort only uses the date of the original message in the thread. This makes it very difficult to actually follow a threaded conversation with new messages on high-traffic lists. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set a threaded view on a folder 2.Wait for some email 3.Scroll up and down trying to spot the new messages Actual Results: Threads are not sorted based on newest message in thread Expected Results: Threads would be sorted based on the most recent message in the thread Additional info: This is more a feature enhancement or usuability enhancement than a but, as evolution seems to have been designed this way. But I'm on several very high traffic lists, and it's very difficult to use the threaded view, but it's nearly impossible to follow a thread in a non-threaded view.
This is the expected behavior. Instead of scrolling up and down, you might want to use 'n' to go to next unread message.
You do not understand the issue. Using "n" is not acceptable when the thread is half way up the screen, neccesetating a search just to find it.
I understand what you're saying, but it's a conscious design decision made by the upstream maintainers of the program. If you don't like it, feel free to file a bug with them or mail the evolution list and try to rally people to your cause. This just isn't the way that threads work in any mail program I've ever used/seen, so I just don't see it as a bug which greatly needs fixing.
Ahh.... I came from a windows background, and that is the default behavior in Outlook. Threads are sorted by the most recent message they contain, not by the date of the first message. I'll try filing an enhancement req with the ximian guys and see what they say, as I do see it as bad design (colored by what I expect an email client to do).