Hi Guy, On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 05:19:42PM -0400, Guy Gold wrote: > I'm trying to understand if it's 'normal' (wink: Derek > Martin, if you copy) to have most of my threads sorted > not-really-through-date-received.
Why are you winking at me? As for your question: > Sat,May 17 12:19:PM Karl Voit Writing a wrapper for the > editor: mutt aborts in-between > Sat,May 17 02:51:PM Kevin J. McCarthy ├─> > Sun,May 18 04:14:AM Chris Green │ └─> > Sat,May 17 05:04:PM Mike Glover └─> > Sat,May 17 05:59:PM Karl Voit └─> > Sat,May 17 09:51:PM Cameron Simpson ├─> > Sun,May 18 02:58:AM Karl Voit │ └─> > Sat,May 17 07:02:PM Gary Johnson └─> This is normal and expected. The messages form a tree (a directed graph) which shows the relationship of what was replied to. They ARE in chronological order... if you consider that; i.e. each individual branch of the tree is in chronological order. This ordering is important, because it enables you to visually see the relationship between messages from a particular branch of the thread, so you can ignore them if you aren't interested in that branch (like if someone posts something tangential to the thread). For example: let's say that in the thread above, Kevin's response was (in your mind) just some commentary about how some other mail program handled the problem better, but you had no interest. Then you can see that Chris's response to that message is also most likely not something you're interested in, based on the path of the graph that is drawn. If you sort these purely in the order they arrive, you can't draw the graph; you're limited to having just one level of replies. As far as I know Mutt can not be configured to display threads the way you are imagining them... it by and large defeats the purpose of having threads. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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