[MlMt] Reading unreads, by Date Received, jumps around

[Randall Meadows]

So, I typically read all my mail based on the default Unread smart 
mailboxes that MailMate ships with.  I have the default sorting column 
as Date Received, so that the messages are more-or-less in chronological 
order.  And the messages are grouped by thread.

As I read the messages, I delete most of them (saving only the few 
needed for posterity).  As I do this, often the messages then jump 
around, because I just deleted the parent of a thread that was keeping 
said thread in the correct chronological order, splitting the thread 
into multiple parts; then when I delete the last message in that now 
partial thread, I'm thrown into a completely different thread.  But I 
haven't finished the first one yet!

Anyone have suggestions on how to configure MM so as to avoid this 
(admittedly high-order first-world) problem?


Thanks.
randy