[Users] Version 3.13

Ralf Mardorf info.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Mon Oct 12 17:51:38 CEST 2015


On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:49:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:50:58 +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>>This is showing esp when you have sorted your mail with newest on top,
>>which is in *my* perception the *only* sensible way of sorting based
>>on dates.  
>
>For a ring binder the newest on top makes sense, for mail clients it
>IMO is more comfortable to have the newest at the bottom, if you sort
>by date, because only then it's possible to display the mail that is
>shown by the message view directly below the message selected by the
>column view.
>
>  Subject       From            vs  Subject       From
>  ---------------------------       ---------------------------
>  message foo 1 moo at reply.org       message foo 4 no at reply.org
>  message foo 2 bar at reply.org       message foo 3 yps at reply.org
>  message foo 3 yps at reply.org       message foo 2 bar at reply.org
>  message foo 4 no at reply.org    4   message foo 1 moo at reply.org  1
>  ---------------------------   is  ---------------------------  is not
>  From: no at reply.org            4   From: no at reply.org           4
>  Subject: message foo 4            Subject: message foo 4
>
>  Hello,                            Hello,
>
>  blablabla.                        blablabla.
>
>  Regards,                          Regards,
>  Me myself                         Me myself
>
>  PS: This makes sense.             PS: This is confusing.
>
>Regards,
>Ralf

PS:

It also fits better to sane quoting style, were the latest mail always
should be below the quotes. IOW everything is consistent if sorting by
the newest at bottom.



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