This is known behaviour of kmail. And it is a works as designed according the current main developer of kmail. As with all open source software you're invited to sent a patch to change this behaviour the way you want it. However, as many people already complained and does not seem to be trivial to develop the right patch. Perhaps a petition signed by many people, kindly begging the kmail developers (at kmail@kde,org) may work .... Op maandag 18 februari 2002 18:56, schreef Jerry Van Brimmer:
Hi All,
Using KMail 1.3.1 (KDE 2.2.1), SuSE 7.3. I like to read my mail sorted by thread. The annoyance comes in when reading mail in a thread made up of messages that have arrival dates that are later than the dates of the messages below this particular thread. Annoyance = If I delete the top message of the current thread, then the highlight drops down to the next message in the current thread. So far so good. The annoyance is that KMail then resorts the messages based on the new highlighted message. Now the highlighted message header might be down at the bottom of the header list. This is very annoying, as the highlight jumps up and down the message header list as you delete read messages. Does anybody understand what I mean? Does anyone else share this same annoyance? Is there some way to configure KMail to not do this? I really like KMail except for this annoyance.
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