Re: possible new sort option

I think this idea to sort threads by the date of the most recent message
contributing to the thread is a very useful one, quite a logical one too.
/Pawel

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 5:35 PM Peter Bloomfield <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08/01/2018 05:04:29 PM Wed, Jack via balsa-list wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Too much idle time, perhaps, but I've been musing on mailbox sorting.  I
> mostly use JWZ sorting, with increasing dates.  This groups messages per
> the JWZ algorithm, and then sorts the groups by the increasing date of the
> first message in the group.  If I click on the date colulmn header, it
> simply reverses the order of presentation of the groups.   In other words,
> the ordering within groups is not changed, but now the groups are sorted by
> the decreasing date of the first message in the group.
> >
> > I have several mailboxes (mainly various mailing lists) where I'd like
> to maintain the message order within the groups as above, but sort the
> groups by the date of the most recent message in the group - either
> increasing or decreasing.  This would bring the most recently active
> threads to the top or bottom of the list.
>
> A new GitLab issue[0] has been opened to continue the discussion, and a
> new branch (thread-date) has a modified sort algorithm, with threads sorted
> by the date of the most recent message in the thread (its 'thread-date').
> Testing and comments welcome!
>
> Peter
>
> [0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/issues/4
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