[MlMt] Thread View that honors reverse date

[Ralph Alvy]

Ah, yes. Conversation mode. That's what Postbox is using. Understood.

On 13 Sep 2013, at 7:19, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 13 Sep 2013, at 16:13, Ralph Alvy wrote:
>
>>> Not sure if this is even possible or makes sense, but I'd love to be 
>>> able to see Threaded View honor my reverse date sort, even within 
>>> each thread.
>>
>> Now that I see how this is done in Postbox on my office machine where 
>> I run Windows, I really miss it. Postbox will sort Threads in reverse 
>> date order of that's the order of dates chosen by the user otherwise. 
>> So the more recent messages appear higher up the list in the thread.
>
> Sorry for not replying earlier on. The problem in MailMate is that 
> threads are fully threaded (showing all message<->reply 
> relationships). It is not a simple matter of reversing the date sort 
> to get what you want. What you need is a different flat threading mode 
> in which the newest message is shown first. This is also closely 
> related to a so-called conversation view where all messages are shown 
> in the message view. The latter is something I would like to work on, 
> but I cannot make any promises (and it is already a long standing
> issue/request).
>
> -- 
> Benny
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