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On Thursday, 31. May 2001 14:04, Marc Mutz wrote:
> See, you didn't read carefully. It said _threads_ (as opposed to the
> messages they contain) are sorted by date. Yet you start talking
> about "esp. in long [...] threads". No. I'll try again:
>
> _Inside_ threads messages are organized by parent-child
> relationships. Not by subject, not by date, not by size, not by
> sender.
>
> Do we agree that this is the only way to arrange messages _inside_ a
> thread?

As Magnus already explained you have to decide how messages on the same 
level inside a thread have to be sorted. KMail currently uses the 
selected sorting by column for this. If you don't believe me than test 
it with this nice gigantic thread.

> The _threads_ are sorted by date, either descending or ascending.

This is the nsmail way. KMail respects the sorting by column you 
selected even if threading is enabled.

> there's no point in sorting _threads_ by size (well, maybe you want
> to see which thread got the most volume) or sender (you have "search
> messages for that") or subject (subjects are completely uncorrelated
> (it they were, the messages would be inside a common thread), so
> there's no point in sorting them, if you want to find a particular
> message, use "search").

Maybe someone wants to sort the threads by the people who started them. 

Regards,
Ingo
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