Let the message list be sorted by something other than the date
Newest-first was the only order, so the mail you had not read yet was wherever it happened to fall. Seven presets and up to three levels of your own. It covers the Inbox alone by default: unread-first is what people want in the folder they triage and confusing in Sent, where everything is read and the order that matters is when it went. Search keeps newest-first whatever the setting says, since a result list is already ordered by the question that was asked. The server does the sorting, over the whole folder, for the same reason search runs there: a list sorted in the browser is sorted only as far as the browser has loaded, which on a folder of ten thousand is the first fifty and a lie about the rest. Two details that are easy to get wrong and were worth pinning in tests. hasKeyword sorts a boolean and false comes before true, so "unread first" is $seen ASCENDING while "starred first" is $flagged DESCENDING -- the other way round. Getting either backwards puts exactly the mail you were looking for at the bottom. And every order ends with newest-first as a tiebreak, because a sort whose last level is a keyword or a subject leaves every tie undefined, and an undefined order changes between two looks at the same folder for no reason the reader can see. Sorting on a keyword is optional in RFC 8621, and a server that will not do it fails the whole query rather than degrading it -- so this setting could turn a folder into one that does not open. The refusal is caught once, the keyword levels dropped and the query retried, and nothing is said: the reader asked for an order and got the closest the server can give, and a toast on every folder change would be the app complaining about its own request. The mock now honours the sort instead of always answering newest-first, which had it reproducing a server that silently returns a different order from the one asked for -- the one shape of wrongness a client cannot detect. MOCK_NO_KEYWORD_SORT=1 reproduces a server that refuses the keyword sorts, so the fallback can be developed against.
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@@ -150,6 +150,28 @@ more attempt. A drag that is merely more sideways than not stays a scroll.
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- **Infinite scroll** with server-side paging, 50 at a time by default.
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- **Conversation view** groups a thread into one row, with the thread's own
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message count; it can be switched off to list messages individually.
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- **Message order** is a setting: newest or oldest first, unread first, starred
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first, largest first, by sender or by subject — or up to three levels of your
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own, chosen in Settings › General. It covers the Inbox alone by default,
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because unread-first is what people want where they triage and confusing in
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Sent, where everything is read; it can be widened to every folder.
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The ordering is done by the **server**, over the whole folder, for the same
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reason search is: a list sorted in the browser is sorted only as far as the
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browser has loaded, which on a folder of ten thousand is the first fifty and
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a lie about the rest. Search keeps newest-first whatever the setting says — a
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result list is already ordered by the question that was asked.
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Every order ends with newest-first as a tiebreak, so rows inside a tie do not
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shuffle between two looks at the same folder.
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**Sorting on a keyword is optional in RFC 8621**, and a server that will not
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do it fails the whole query rather than degrading it — so "unread first" on
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such a server would mean a folder that does not open at all. The refusal is
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caught once, the keyword levels dropped, and the query retried, quietly: the
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reader asked for an order and got the closest the server can give, and a
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toast on every folder change would be the app complaining about its own
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request. `MOCK_NO_KEYWORD_SORT=1` reproduces such a server.
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- **Multi-select** with `x`, shift-click for ranges, `Ctrl/Cmd+A` for all, and
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a long press on a touchscreen.
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- **Select the whole folder**, not just the rows that happen to be loaded. The
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