[Evolution-hackers] feature wish: improved threading

[Dan Stromberg <strombrg dcs nac uci edu>]

Where is the right place to send feature wishes for evolution?

I've been using mutt.  I'd like very much to be able to switch to
evolution.

The main thing preventing this is evolution's apparently-poor threading
support.  I've become dependent on threading support in mutt.

Many of my mailboxes have thousands of messages, especially my inbox.
When I visit these mailboxes, the only way I can contend with the
deluge, is to look for the most recent messages at the bottom.

Evolution apparently puts new messages pretty far from the bottom
sometimes when threading is turned on, because it apparently (?) can
only sort by the first message in a thread.  Mutt on the other hand,
when this is placed in the .muttrc:

	set sort=threads
	set sort_aux=last-date-received

...does the Right Thing: it sorts threads by the receipt date of the
last message in the thread, so a new contribution to a thread pops the
entire thread down to the bottom of the mailbox, where the new message
can easily be found and read.

Does evolution already do this?  Would it be difficult to make it do
this if not?

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Dan Stromberg                                               UCI/NACS/DCS