[imp] Resetting sort order

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jeff Tucker <jefft@wciatl.com>:

> Mulberry shows the message number in its UI. This would be very useful for 
> another thing that I find myself doing. Often I read a message and then 
> return to the mailbox view and lose track of what message I just read. When
> I'm reading a message, it says 7 of 23, for instance. When I return to the 
> mailbox view, it would be nice if I could figure out which message was #7. 
> (For instance, I might see that I have three messages from one particular 
> sender and I want to read just those. When I open the first one, I return 
> to the messages. I don't want to accidentally open the same one again.)

The message number is different from that sequence ("7 of 23"); if we used 
message numbers, then hitting next from that message might get you "19 of 23" 
as the next message, and "2 of 23" after that - all depends on the sort order. 
So I think that would be confusing.

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
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