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

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 16:56 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I don't have a custom sort order, and I also see the saner behaviour 
> you describe, Patrick. If I delete a message, focus moves to the next 
> message below it in the display. Not the next newer message in the 
> mailbix which may be elsewhere in the threaded display.

To be clear this doesn't happen to me all the time, but it does happen
probably 30-40% of the time when I have a longer thread of unread mail.
My suspicion is that when it happens, there's something about the
message that causes the thread display order and the "next-message"
order to be out of alignment.  It would be interesting to know what the
"next-message" code uses for ordering.

I could try pre-emptively saving email threads to an mbox file in case
it happens.  Or maybe I can undelete the message and reproduce the
behavior.  I'll see if I can get a better handle on it.

I guess for completeness I should say I'm using IMAP mailboxes, although
I doubt it makes a difference.