When you click on any mail folder such as your inbox or a newsgroup, the *first* message always displays, forcing you to scroll to the other end of the listing to find the most recent messages that you're really after. This is really a pain, and a step backwards from Netscape 4.7x.

Define "most recent" - do you mean the most recently received, or viewed?

Please don't go by my word on this, but I believe that this works fine in Netscape 4.7x. For the default Inbox and other personal mail folders, I believe we would want to display the oldest *unread* message, rather than the oldest *received* message as we do now. For newsgroups, I believe that we'd want to go to the oldest unread message in the last thread viewed, and if there are no unread messages in that thread (or the thread is gone), the oldest unread message in the newsgroup as a whole. (I'm really guessing here though.)

Confirmed Platform: PC OS: Linux 2.2.17 Mozilla Build: 2001030108 Though you can just 'sort' them in reverse date order. Someone still has to decide if its worth changing to that because it was in Netscape 4.x. Adding keyword.

Do you really want to display the last *unread* message? It might have a nasty attachment. I would say the last *read* message or no message at all.

That's an excellent point. The last *read* message is fine (in your inbox or newsgroup thread.) Even if no message is displayed, your inbox listing should display the most recent message headers.

Yeah good point hadn't thought about that. Changing summary to something a little more descriptive.

Also, in a newsgroup, the first unread message, or the first 200 messages, might be irrelevant to the user.

Since there seems to be some question as to how this should work, I would *strongly* recommend that when a user clicks on a folder, such as Inbox, the program should display the last *read* message, just as it does in Netscape 4.7. I often switch back and forth between mail folders when comparing or replying to messages, and I agree with the comment by the original bug reporter (Steve Harris) that the way that Mozilla currently handles this (always forgetting your last read message and going back to the top of the list) is a real pain and a huge step backwards from Netscape 4.7. We have people in our office who refuse to use Netscape 6/Mozilla mail precisely because of this reason. I personally hate always having to scroll down to my last read message everytime I switch back and forth between mail folders. Netscape 4.7 was much better in this regard, and I seriously hope that this will be addressed before Mozilla 1.0 is released.

Looks like this is partially fixed in 1.3. Now it remembers the last read message when you go from one folder to folder, but only within one session. When you close and reopen mail, this information is lost. Is this intended behavior?

*** Bug 146379 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80608 ***