[MlMt] sort by unread and still have conversations threaded ?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 13 Oct 2014, at 21:12, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 13 Oct 2014, at 16:29, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to have mailmate just show conversations with unread 
>> in them ?
>>
>> I've tried the following with no luck:
>>
>> * Mailbox with just unread - now all conversation threading are lost
>>
>> * show all from mailbox, sort by unread - conversations are not 
>> thread.
>>
>>
>> Only if I do not sort on unread do I get conversations but then I 
>> will have to scroll down to
>> find all the unread.
>>
>> Any suggestions ?
>
> If I understand you correctly then part of the problem is that sorting 
> by unread does not work well when it's not the root of the thread that 
> is unread? (I guess I could just change that.)

Yes, it seem to work fine when sorting on other columns, why not also 
for unread ?
It would be great to change this because then I can just sort by unread 
in any folder and always see them at the top instead of having to scroll 
to see the "full picture".

btw. optimally I would have it sort by unread first, sent date second - 
is that possible ?

> Suggestion: Create a smart mailbox based on the Unread smart mailbox 
> as follows. Click on the “Unread” mailbox, make sure no messages 
> are selected, click on the “Thread” toolbar button, and then click 
> “Save” to save it. This mailbox should contain the messages of any 
> thread in which one or more unread messages exist. (Hmm, it behaves a 
> bit weird when marking messages read since only the unread message 
> itself is “sticky”. That is not ideal, but seems to be non-trivial 
> to fix.)

This search result is actually *exactly* what I would like to enable in 
any view/folder - but yes once I've clicked a message it removes the 
thread completely removing the option to actually go back to the mail. I 
would say that makes it not possible to use day-to-day unfortunately ;/


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