E-mail threads top level entry - oldest vs. first unread vs. newest

[Aleq]

Hi,
I was wondering for very long time why I don't like the threaded view - I think I get it. The thread top level entry is not getting bold and the time of it doesn't change when something arrives into the thread.

The top level entry gets only underlined, but it's not sorted to the top (as I have the pane sorted by date). Is there any way how to change the collapsed top level entry of the thread to contain either first unread or perhaps even better - the newest e-mail DATE on it? And bold, if anything in the thread is unread?

The top level time "THR Test 2"  should be bold and list 16:26 when collapsed in my opinion (or to my preferences)

If not, is it doable by addon?

Thanks!

[BarbL24]

I like the threaded messages feature but would like a way to have the lastest threaded message on top instead at the bottom. That is the order all of my other email messages are; most recent on top.  I see others have suggested this feature.

[Jon]

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[AUSTINHAN]

Hi~

First of all, I really appreciate all thunderbird app development team.

I love using the thuderbird email client across all aspects of work and personal life.

By the way, I haven't solved this issue so far. And, it makes me very inconvenient.

It is about 'sort by'(Honestly I don't know its exact menu name in English because I am an user for Korean version) under 'View' menu.

When I set 'sort by' with 'descending order', All email is sorted well. (It works well)

But, Problem is 'Thread' under each email topic. Because I enabled 'Using Thread', Many emails are accumulated as 'Thread'.

Then, when I expanded this collapsed threads, it is expanded and shows lists. And, this thread lists is shown as 'Ascending order'.

Even though I already tried many times to figure out solution by finding the certain menu, I assume there are no such option for controlling this sort order.

Could you advise how can I change this 'Thread' sort order to 'Descending order'?

Thank you in advance.

[siffemcon]

I think that's https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479969.

[buggo]

That thread is 12 years old! And there still isn't a way to sort threads in descending order. Very, very annoying. If you have more than a few emails in a thread, you have to go hunt for the newest one, which is ALMOST ALWAYS the one you want to see. 

[Myob]

Agree.  Plus, after marking the first message as "read", when subsequent messages arrive, the "bold" effect doesn't return meaning you don't notice a  new responnse.

[Myob]

Have discovered that when emails arrive "today", the date portion of the timestamp (in the "date" column) is missing and this is causing the ordering issue.

[wsm]

Merging this to the older https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/e-mail-threads-top-level-entry-oldest-vs-first-unread-vs-...

[wsm]

Please vote for this if you are interested about the threading order, because through a series of twists and turns this idea has lost it's votes. 

You might also want to vote for https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/add-the-option-to-sort-conversations-with-last-post-first/idc-p... which is about the conversation view order. 

This request is in development.