When viewing an email, the right-click menu in the email's tab could include "Display email in list".

[muhMoz11]

The purpose of this would be to highlight the last email that I was looking at, rather than the last one I double-clicked.

As things are now, the last email I double-clicked, rather than the last one I looked at, is highlighted.

To keep the present functionality intact, a solution is to add an entry to the email tab's right-click menu that says something like "Display email in list". That would then open a tab displaying the email's account in the usual way (if one is not already open - no duplicates, please), with the email highlighted and the list scrolled so that the highlighted email is visible, say, fifth from the top (this would be configurable).

[Jon]

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