How to fix threading
Thunderbird aggregates in the same threads e-mails from my employer that are completely unrelated. They are sent in different months, with a different subject, etc. and they end up in the same thread. Clearly, there is something in the header pushing Thunderbird to aggregate them, but this results in a very annoying ordering of the emails.
In my case, e-mail messages are sorted on date with descending order. However, the first message I see in my list dates back to months ago because another message sent few days ago has been merged with the previous one in a thread.
This would not be a problem if the message displayed in the list were the last one added to the thread and not the first one starting the thread.
I have done several searches and read several help pages and discussions here, but I cannot find a way to display threads in the same way the rest of the messages is shown, i.e. latest first. For some obscure reasons, Thunderbird keeps displaying in the message list and in the threaded view (when I expand the thread), the messages in reverse order wrt my selection.
How can I fix this?
Všetky odpovede (1)
You are correct that within a thread the messages are in descending order. This makes sense to me because the messages in the thread are DESCENDED from the initial one.
Thunderbird (and all other standard email agents) considers a "thread" to be messages that refer to a common "References:" line in the header that refers to a previous Message-ID. So, if someone creates a new message in response to an old message, it will be threaded with them, no matter if it's much newer. I know people who habitually create "new" messages by replying to old ones because they find it easier than addressing the new message from scratch. But you see the unintended consequences. Unless you can convince them to not do that, threading will continue to work as intended, though I understand why that doesn't work so well for you in this case.
Maybe one of Thunderbird's other features can help you manage this better. Unthreaded | Date View will, of course, show all messages in chronological order, so you won't be distracted by old irrelevant ones. Or maybe check out the Saved Search feature. It can create and automatically maintain a "virtual" folder of messages, threaded or unthreaded, that can be age restricted so you'd see only recent ones.
Here's a more in-depth article about the feature:
Ak chcete odpovedať na príspevky, musíte sa prihlásiť do svojho účtu. Ak ešte nemáte účet, položte novú otázku.