On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:04 AM, IvyNut <[email protected]> wrote:
... > there doesn't seem to be a logic behind it either, it just randomly picks > whichever message and then you seem to be stuck with it, cause that's the > one you will see FOREVER. > My experience differs from yours. I don't see the random behavior. I think it is logical. When you open a conversation normally (not from having done a Search), Gmail opens on the oldest unread message in that conversation. Newer unread messages are also open but might be scrolled below the bottom of the screen. If there are no unread messages, it opens the last one received. If you first do a Search, and then open a conversation from the results of that Search, Gmail opens the messages in that conversation containing text from your Search. The oldest message passing the Search criteria will be the one displayed first. As far as I know, those are the two rules Gmail uses. It always seems to hold true for me. The snippets also seem to be from the oldest unread message ... but I don't pay a great deal of attention to them because they are too short for my tastes. Since you have already seen what options are available to you (from the Settings menus), I'm sure you already know that there are no controls for changing the order in which messages are displayed. Gmail orders messages in chronological order, and conversations in reverse chronological order. I don't like the lack of flexibility, but I am willing to live with it. I hear there are add-ons that may change the appearance of Gmail, but I have not used those. I'm switching to another email client. I don't consider Gmail to be an email client, but I suppose some might. I consider it an email server, which also has a web interface. You can either use or ignore the web interface. By all means, use an email client (Thunderbird, Eudora, whatever suits you) if it makes you happy. Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
