If you keep your messages reverse-sorted by date, the new messages will come in at the top and everything will be in correct sort order.

Messages marked "urgent" floating to the top, or using the setting "sort unread before read" will slightly skew the list, but it's a lot better than having half your new mail at the top and half at the bottom.

Try it, you might be surprised how quickly you get used to it... it's not as cool and sophisticated as fancy grouping & threading, but it works!

When new messages arrive in the New mail folder, please could we have an option to automatically insert them into the correct place according to the gropuping/threading/sorting parameters currently selected, rather than just leaving them at the top?

(Lower priority, but the same would also be useful for any folder into which new messages are moved while the folder list is open.)

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When new messages arrive in the New mail folder, please could we have an option to automatically insert them into the correct place according to the gropuping/threading/sorting parameters currently selected, rather than just leaving them at the top?

(Lower priority, but the same would also be useful for any folder into which new messages are moved while the folder list is open.)

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This has been discussed in length on the beta list and is voted No. The risk of deleting a wrong message is too big. Consider, you have a number of messages selected for deleting (or any other action) and a new mail message pops in and drops into the selection due to the sorting. You don't want that, at least we (the beta team) will not.

I get your point, Han - were it to be done it would indeed have to be clever enough not to include the new messages in any selection.