New Posts are not always on top. Intrepid KDE 4.2

[Derek Broughton]

Steven Vollom wrote:

> Using Kmail.  When I open the inbox to see what is new, I sometimes have
> old
> emails remaining in the box.  When new emails are added, usually they
> don't show and I have to scroll to find them.

First, "+" should always take you to the next unread message in the folder. 
What it does if you have no unread messages left in that folder is a matter
of configuration settings.

You can also choose to always start with the first unread message in any
folder.  

Both these settings are in "Settings", "Configure KMail", "Misc"

> Is this something that I could change, so that new emails always appear as
> the
> first item to read when they are downloaded.  Sometimes thy are included
> in the
> middle of previously read emails too.  

That's just a matter of threading.  You can turn off threading on a
per-folder basis if you really want to.  I wouldn't recommend it - once you
know you can just jump to the next unread message, it's easier to keep the
threading.