How to reverse the display of the messages of a folder? (to force that the last messsages apppear at top instead of bottom)

Question

I like Sylpheed email client because it is very light and fast.

But I have a small problem with it:

When I am viewing some folder (Inbox, Sent, or other folders) the last unseen messages or last messages (if there is no new message) are shown at the bottom.

I would like that last message appear at the top for all folders. I mean, I would prefer the dafault display be reversed. Like the gmail interface in which last message appear at the top for all folders.

I didn't find an option to achieve this in Sylpheed.

Many email client (like Thunderbird) are able to show the last message at the top of the dialogue for all folders. I would like to the same thing with Sylpheed.

Answer 1

Sort by the Number column instead of Date column.

The Number column is not visible by default. You have to enable it.

Click on your current Mailbox (or the folders individually) then click on View > Set Display item ....

Then add Number from Available items to Displayed items.

This will add Number column to each folders (some folder like Sent may possibly need the above action separately, that is, you should click on them and do the above procedure).

Then Click on the Number column to reverse the ordering.

This is faster than reversing the Date column.