Re: [Evolution] Annoyance with "next message" order

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 08:21 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > I have folders ordered by Received (Descending, i.e. the oldest
> thread
> > first) and this problem doesn't happen to me. I suspect the problem
> > has to do with wanting the most recent thread (i.e. the thread with
> > the most recent message) at the top but the messages within each
> > thread go from oldest to newest.
>
> That's why I order my mail Ascending instead of Descending, with the
> newest mail at the BOTTOM of the folder.  Although it's a bit weird at
> first, this seems the most natural to me; it aligns the inter-thread
> order with the intra-thread order: both go from oldest at the top to
> newest at the bottom.

I misunderstood you. As I said, I also have oldest first (both threads
and messages) yet I don't see the behaviour you describe. However I seem
to have a custom sort order which I must have configured a long time ago
and forgotten about. I can't find an obvious way to see what it's set
to.

poc