Bug 190092

Summary:	kmail has lost the ability do not disturb sorting during mail deletion
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Christoph Bartoschek <bartoschek>
Component:	new message list	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	arekm, christophe, shrdlu
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Christoph Bartoschek 2009-04-19 18:17:47 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

In kmail from KDE 3.5 one could delete the first message of a thread and the other messages did not change the ordering. This is no longer the case in kmail from KDE 4. Here we have the same annoying behaviour that already older kmail versions have. After each deletion in a thread the other mails are reordered again to their real position.

For example there are the following mails in the inbox with their dates:

Mail A - Day 1
+-Mail A.1 - Day 3
 +-Mail A.2 - Day 4
Mail B - Day 2
Mail C - Day 5

If I delete Mail A then I get:

Mail B - Day 2
+-Mail A.1 - Day 3
 +-Mail A.2 - Day 4
Mail C - Day 5

In KDE 3.5 I got 

+-Mail A.1 - Day 3
 +-Mail A.2 - Day 4
Mail B - Day 2
Mail C - Day 5

as long as I did not leave the directory. 

kmail introduced this feature during the 3.x series because this is obviously the better behaviour. Iterating through unread mails and deleting unwanted ones does not surprise the users by unexpected jumps.

Because this is a regression from an earlier version, I choose "Bug" and not "Wishlist".

I use the standard message list and sort by the date of the lastest message in a thread.

Comment 1 Christoph Bartoschek 2009-04-19 18:24:42 UTC

In my initial comment I wrote "directory". This should be folder. After leaving the folder the "wrong" ordering does not have to persist.

After reentering the folder one would expect to see what current kmail does:

Mail B - Day 2
+-Mail A.1 - Day 3
 +-Mail A.2 - Day 4
Mail C - Day 5

Comment 2 shrdlu 2009-10-02 15:44:06 UTC

I can confirm this, and I too would like the old kmail 3.5 behavior.

Comment 3 Björn Ruberg 2010-02-22 13:14:01 UTC

*** Bug 187325 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:12:05 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.