Hello Sam, Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a suggestion for thread sorting in Thunderbird. You made this bug report in 2006 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.
Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket? If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug? If you are, could you let us know? Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better. G -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/38988 Title: [wishlist] thread scoring rules Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Personally I frequently need to watch certain threads on very high volume lists (eg, LKML). This is what I end up doing at the moment: 1. select "threads with unread". Thunderbird tidily folds each thread into a single line. fantastic. 2. scan the ones that are bold (ie, new threads), to see if any of the messages are relevant, or are from authors that I know are working in the same field as myself. 3. flag the threads I want to watch as "important", so that they stand out in red. Possibly hit "R" on the ones I don't care about to mark them as read. ignore the ones that are just underlined - if I didn't care about them the first time around, I won't care about them the next time. 4. read all the messages from the threads in red 5. hit "catchup" Of course this usage pattern is just begging for a thread scoring system, like emacs' gnus has. ie, setup key words, authors and other rules (such as, threads I've participated in) that increase a thread's score. Then you sort threads by score and ignore the ones that don't make the threshold. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/38988/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
