Recent versions of evolution sort threads by the most recent reply. The date for the toplevel message in a thread, is shown with the date of the latest reply as well, in the event the thread is collapsed.
I don't know about Received Date, but sorting by "Date" works fine for me. The feature probably isn't bug free, either, though. -- dobey On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 17:47 -0600, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > I hope I'm not tiring people with my bug reports... please understand > my goal is to make systems better and to boost productivity. > > Many cool e-mail programs have a threading feature that groups related > messages in chronological order. This makes it easy to see messages in > context. > > Evolution has this feature, but as far as I can tell, it is crippled > severely because of the inability to sort message threads in a useful > way. > > For example, if someone sends you a message, and you reply, then a > week later this person replies back, logically, the two messages they > sent are grouped together. > > Unfortunately, if you've received 200 messages since then, you will > have to scroll down past those 200 messages to see the reply. > > This is because when you sort your threaded display by "received date > (desc)" the received date of the *oldest* message in the thread is > used, not the newest. > > To illustrate this better, I have a folder called "bugs" and filters > to put all my bug related e-mails there automatically. > > There are over 1700 e-mails in this folder. > > Some time ago, I got subscribed to a bug about pango. I get a couple > messages from this thread a month it seems. When I get a new message, > I have to scroll past 1500 or so e-mails to find the new one. The list > is so long, that I scroll relatively fast. However, scrolling fast > makes it incredibly easy to miss the unread message. > > That's an exaggerated (but true) example, however this characteristic > of evolution hampers my e-mail reading every day. > > I would love to see sorting of threads use the received date of the > newest msg in the thread rather than the oldest. This is how every > other MTA I have used displays messages. > > Anyone willing to triage this and add comments? > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412845 > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
