[MlMt] possibly unpopular feature request

[Joe Abley]

Hi all,

I think that the way that threads are presented in MailMate is precise 
and good, and it appeals to the part of my brain that still remembers 
using Mutt.

The rest of my brain (the part that over a course of years has been 
lulled into expectations of rich text and Apple UIs) now thinks that it 
is cumbersome, however. In order to make the preview pane readable, I 
need to collapse big threads (think hundreds of messages). When a new 
message appears in the thread I need to expand it again and poke around 
to find out which sub-thread has the new mail.

I like to see new mail at the top of the list, not the bottom. Perhaps 
that's part of my problem, since new mail in expanded threads in 
MailMate are arranged the other way round).

The way that Apple Mail handles threads (new messages at the top of the 
conversation, no attempt at the mutt-style threading of individual 
replies) actually works far better for me than the way that MailMate 
currently does things. Again, I appreciate that my brain is broken and 
that I am wrong about many things.

What are the chances that there could be a configurable option to use 
Mail.app-style presentation of threads as an alternative to what 
MailMate currently does?

(Note for the record that simply switching back to Mail.app is no longer 
an option, since MailMate has given me expectations that mail clients 
should be fast and efficient, should not stall randomly and in 
particular should not invent thousand-message threads out of unrelated 
nonsense for fun.)


Joe