Bug 324122

Summary: when messages are displayed in thread view and sorted by date, new messages don't show up at the top of the list
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN <kde.kfoar>
Component: message listAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: kde.kfoar
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.11   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN 2013-08-27 15:01:14 UTC 
If the message list is set to show messages in thread view and the messages are sorted by date, the sorting is done after the first message of the thread, thus making the new messages very hard to find if they are in an old thread.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set View Aggregation to Standard mail list
2. Set sorting to Date/Time
3. Have a few mail threads
4. Receive new mail in those threads
Actual Results:  
The new messages are very hard to locate, because the list is sorted by the date of the first message in the thread, not the last.

Expected Results:  
The thread should be moved at the top of the list. The sorting should be done by the date of the last message in the thread.

As an example of this functionality, you can try the same thing in Mozilla Thunderbird.
Comment 1 Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN 2014-01-29 11:39:29 UTC 
Bug Report Invalid. (or it was fixed)

There is a sorting option that does this: View -> Message List -> Sorting -> By Date/Time of most recent in Subtree.