On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 06:26, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 01:33:38PM -0600, Mike Kestner wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:49, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > > > > Many of my mailboxes have thousands of messages, especially my inbox. > > > When I visit these mailboxes, the only way I can contend with the > > > deluge, is to look for the most recent messages at the bottom. > > > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding your task, but doesn't next/prev unread > > provide what you need? Try out the '[' and ']' key bindings, or > > Actions|Goto|NextUnreadMessage. > > I imagine it might if I didn't have so many hundreds or thousands of > messages that I never get around to reading because the subject line > looks too irrelevant.
Maybe use 'mark all as read' when you've had enough? > But I'll see if I can adjust my work habits to use next unread. > > (I've been using a cron job that gets rid of anything over 3 months old > if it hasn't been refiled somewhere. Believe it or not, it seems to be > faster than deleting uninteresting stuff for some reason) Yeah thats not such a bad idea either. As to the original question, the sorting is handled by etable, so yeah its a bit tricky to make it sort properly. Although, it probably could be done with a more intelligent, tree-aware sort comparator. _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
