Idea #6946: Make Mozilla fix the 4 years old bug in Thunderbird destroying threaded view

Written by zooounds the 13 Apr 08 at 18:08. Category: Office.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

The bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254159

In short:

when Thunderbird shows mail in threaded view, the mails are sorted on date on FIRST mail in thread. Instead it should sort on the date of the last mail received, like many good mail readers do.

Why is this such a big issue?

If you have a thread of mails you got say one months ago and you today get another mail to this thread, this last mail will be almost impossible to find as it will be put long down (up) your list.

As it is now I think threaded view in Thunderbird is USELESS as many many of my mails have been lost.

It's such a easy patch but the Mozilla people doesn't care.

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Kedoc wrote on the 14 Apr 08 at 17:21

Maybe this website is not the right place for this request ?

zooounds wrote on the 15 Apr 08 at 10:34

Maybe not, but it seem like I'm not the only one suffering from this bug.

deejross wrote on the 16 Apr 08 at 14:20

There's a setting you can change in the advanced editor window...can't remember the name of the setting, but it really is stupid it's not enabled by default.

becominglumberg wrote on the 17 Apr 08 at 13:48

To be fair, I would imagine 95% of the people who are plusing this are gmail users. Would it be worthwhile to focus simply on Gmail integration (a special IMAP setup, that uses the gmail folders by default, and reads how they are threaded to stay in sync)?

zooounds wrote on the 18 Apr 08 at 17:46

Wouldn't help me as I use my IMAP-box i got from the university.
And there is no setting to fix this :(

kd7tck@msn.com wrote on the 8 Jun 08 at 17:44

This belongs on launch pad, not here.

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