I didn't know what list to send this to, but since there has been some discussion about Mozilla products here, I'll try this one.
I get a large number of messages every day, in addition to those I filter out and don't see. Unfortunately, some of these messages seem to come in out of time sync, for one reason or another. I don't send everything on the incoming list to trash as soon as I read it. Some of the letters I keep for later reference. Some are tagged, some not. The resulting message list may have two or three, or tonight, 20, unread messages mixed in with the read and temporarily saved messages, so that the Inbox reads "Inbox (20)" even tho you are at the bottom of the list. Now you have to go and find these 20 emails, which are scattered among perhaps 100 or more messages in the list which have been read already. It would be nice if there were a button somewhere that would go to the highlighted messages, one at a time, starting at the top and working its way down, until they have all been opened and/or deleted.
Maybe someone from Mozilla (or Pale Moon, which is said to be working on a Thunderbird clone) will see this here.
sorry if it's far off topic--doug
On 05/17/14 12:52, Doug wrote:
I get a large number of messages every day, in addition to those I filter out and don't see. Unfortunately, some of these messages seem to come in out of time sync, for one reason or another. I don't send everything on the incoming list to trash as soon as I read it. Some of the letters I keep for later reference. Some are tagged, some not. The resulting message list may have two or three, or tonight, 20, unread messages mixed in with the read and temporarily saved messages, so that the Inbox reads "Inbox (20)" even tho you are at the bottom of the list. Now you have to go and find these 20 emails, which are scattered among perhaps 100 or more messages in the list which have been read already. It would be nice if there were a button somewhere that would go to the highlighted messages, one at a time, starting at the top and working its way down, until they have all been opened and/or deleted.
So, you have an inbox with a large number of messages. Scattered throughout the inbox are unread messages and you want to know how to easily access them. Yes? If I've defined the question correctly....
If you have the "Menu Bar" enabled (Clicking on the T-Bird emblem is similar) you will notice you can click on "Go--->Next--->Unread Message" or "Go--->Previous---Unread Message" to get to where you want. You can also use the shortcut keys "N" and "P" instead.
Also, on the "Mail Toolbar" there is a "View" drop down menu which allows you to display messages based on various criteria. One choice is "Unread". You can even make custom views.
FWIW, you may have to left click at the top of T-Bird to get a menu to select the "Menu" and "Mail" tool bars to be visible,
On 05/17/2014 01:19 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 05/17/14 12:52, Doug wrote:
I get a large number of messages every day, in addition to those I filter out and don't see. Unfortunately, some of these messages seem to come in out of time sync, for one reason or another. I don't send everything on the incoming list to trash as soon as I read it. Some of the letters I keep for later reference. Some are tagged, some not. The resulting message list may have two or three, or tonight, 20, unread messages mixed in with the read and temporarily saved messages, so that the Inbox reads "Inbox (20)" even tho you are at the bottom of the list. Now you have to go and find these 20 emails, which are scattered among perhaps 100 or more messages in the list which have been read already. It would be nice if there were a button somewhere that would go to the highlighted messages, one at a time, starting at the top and working its way down, until they have all been opened and/or deleted.
So, you have an inbox with a large number of messages. Scattered throughout the inbox are unread messages and you want to know how to easily access them. Yes? If I've defined the question correctly....
If you have the "Menu Bar" enabled (Clicking on the T-Bird emblem is similar) you will notice you can click on "Go--->Next--->Unread Message" or "Go--->Previous---Unread Message" to get to where you want. You can also use the shortcut keys "N" and "P" instead.
Also, on the "Mail Toolbar" there is a "View" drop down menu which allows you to display messages based on various criteria. One choice is "Unread". You can even make custom views.
FWIW, you may have to left click at the top of T-Bird to get a menu to select the "Menu" and "Mail" tool bars to be visible,
Thank you, Ed. I've only been using T-Bird for about 15 years, and I never knew about that! Solves the problem perfectly! --doug
On 05/17/14 04:52, Doug wrote:
I didn't know what list to send this to, but since there has been some discussion about Mozilla products here, I'll try this one.
I get a large number of messages every day, in addition to those I filter out and don't see. Unfortunately, some of these messages seem to come in out of time sync, for one reason or another. I don't send everything on the incoming list to trash as soon as I read it. Some of the letters I keep for later reference. Some are tagged, some not.
emails are shown by time they arrive to you. when they are out of time order, it is because of delays reaching your email provider.
The resulting message list may have two or three, or tonight, 20, unread messages mixed in with the read and temporarily saved messages, so that the Inbox reads "Inbox (20)" even tho you are at the bottom of the list. Now you have to go and find these 20 emails, which are scattered among perhaps 100 or more messages in the list which have been read already.
this is not a fault of thunderbird and something one has to contend with.
It would be nice if there were a button somewhere that would go to the highlighted messages, one at a time, starting at the top and working its way down, until they have all been opened and/or deleted.
as Ed Greshko replied, you have a sort option in the "View" selection.
if you are reading emails with "Unthreaded", last of selects under "View > Sort by", select "Date" and they will be by time sent stamp.
if you use "Threaded", use "View > Sort by > Order received" so they will sort by time stamp.
ie;
View > Sort by > Date + Unthreaded
View > Sort by > Order received + Threaded
may not seem logical, but this is how i find it to work in thunderbird up to 24.5.0.
hth.
Am 17.05.2014 10:31, schrieb g:
On 05/17/14 04:52, Doug wrote:
I didn't know what list to send this to, but since there has been some discussion about Mozilla products here, I'll try this one.
I get a large number of messages every day, in addition to those I filter out and don't see. Unfortunately, some of these messages seem to come in out of time sync, for one reason or another. I don't send everything on the incoming list to trash as soon as I read it. Some of the letters I keep for later reference. Some are tagged, some not.
emails are shown by time they arrive to you. when they are out of time order, it is because of delays reaching your email provider.
Thunderbird's "date" colummn in fact seems to show the date the messages are sent. Your actual message, eg, is indicated in my date field as "10:31" (my local time), whereas the received field shows "10:32", which correspondends to the respective entries in the message header. If you want to sort your emails by date received, you can set this in the View | Sort by | Order Received-
On 05/17/14 11:39, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
Am 17.05.2014 10:31, schrieb g:
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If you want to sort your emails by date received, you can set this in the View | Sort by | Order Received-
this is true. i did not show such separately when showing using threaded and untheaded.
Allegedly, on or about 17 May 2014, Doug sent:
I get a large number of messages every day, in addition to those I filter out and don't see. Unfortunately, some of these messages seem to come in out of time sync, for one reason or another.
If you want to see messages listed in a logical and coherent order, then use "threading," to sort messages. This sorts messages in the order that contributors have responded to them.
If your client can't manage threading, or the senders have stuffed up the headers that threading uses, then you can sort by subject then posting date (the time that they wrote them, which takes different timezones into account, at as well).
If you sort by received order, you will get them randomly arranged, because messages are not guaranteed to be received as they're posted, various uncorrelated delays are involved.
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