Clever mailsort in Thunderbird

[zer0halo]

Sort by "Date" instead of "Order Received" plus "Threaded" and you'll
get the results you want (threads bumped to the top when a new message
is received in that thread). At least it works for me.

On 7/31/05, Simon Santoro <Simon.Santoro at poste.it> wrote:
> Arjan Geven wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I've a question concerning mail sorting in Thunderbird and Evolution.
> >
> > I really liked the way you could choose to sort messages by thread in
> > Outlook 2003: mails were grouped per subject, and the group with the
> > newest replies were on top. If someone replies on an old mail, this
> > group bumps to the top again. Gmail also has this way of sorting as
> > default.
> >
> > Is this also possible in Thunderbird?
> >
> > I tried to get it done, but failed so far. I can get my messages sorted
> > by thread, but when someone replies to an old mail and this unread mail
> > nicely gets put under the original. However, the original is not bumped
> > to the top of the list, making it hard to find it back..
> >
> > What I have right now:
> >
> > View > Sort By > Order Received
> > View > Threads > All
> > View > Threads > Expand All
> >
> > Any solution?
> 
> No, Thunderbird can not do this.
> 
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