SeaMonkey mail behavior with IMAP accounts

[r***@public.gmane.org]

Recently I had to set up a new profile in SeaMonkey because Mail began crashing very frequently. I've used Mozilla mail & web stuff long enough to know that sometimes something in profiles gets messed up and you just need to start a new one.

That's not really the issue, but it is related. In creating the new profile and re-adding all my e-mail accounts to it, I learned that Hotmail now has IMAP access. One of my main e-mail accounts is a Hotmail account and I love IMAP, so I figured I try it. Having to migrate 100s of messages from an old MBOX file to a new one when using POP was a pain during profile re-builds. IMAP is so much easier.

But now, whenever I click on the 'Inbox' of that Hotmail account, SeaMonkey takes some time to 'connect' and display the last selected message in the Inbox. While doing this, it defaults the message list view to the very top, which happens to be the oldest message in the Inbox. I've noticed this behavior with my Gmail account, but it seems to be much quicker so I've ignored it.

Is there a way to have it default to the bottom/end of the Inbox (or last selected message) instead of the top/beginning while SeaMonkey is establishing the connection to the IMAP server? I know I can sort with newest on top and that does what I want, but I've used 'newest on the bottom of the inbox list' for so long that this is hard to adapt to.

Thanks,
Rob

[r***@public.gmane.org]

Post by r***@public.gmane.org
Recently I had to set up a new profile in SeaMonkey because Mail began crashing very frequently. I've used Mozilla mail & web stuff long enough to know that sometimes something in profiles gets messed up and you just need to start a new one.
That's not really the issue, but it is related. In creating the new profile and re-adding all my e-mail accounts to it, I learned that Hotmail now has IMAP access. One of my main e-mail accounts is a Hotmail account and I love IMAP, so I figured I try it. Having to migrate 100s of messages from an old MBOX file to a new one when using POP was a pain during profile re-builds. IMAP is so much easier.
But now, whenever I click on the 'Inbox' of that Hotmail account, SeaMonkey takes some time to 'connect' and display the last selected message in the Inbox. While doing this, it defaults the message list view to the very top, which happens to be the oldest message in the Inbox. I've noticed this behavior with my Gmail account, but it seems to be much quicker so I've ignored it.
Is there a way to have it default to the bottom/end of the Inbox (or last selected message) instead of the top/beginning while SeaMonkey is establishing the connection to the IMAP server? I know I can sort with newest on top and that does what I want, but I've used 'newest on the bottom of the inbox list' for so long that this is hard to adapt to.
Thanks,
Rob

It looks like the cause of the slowness is Microsoft's fault:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-osend/imap-access-to-hotmail-is-ungodly-slow/61c988b2-89f0-41d0-ade2-08c83b0cc3e2

But I'm still curious as to how the bottom of the inbox can be displayed instead of the top. If I scroll to the bottom manually during the 15 sec lag the new messages are there and I can access them. It's just that the default view is the top, where the oldest messages are located.

Rob

[r***@public.gmane.org]

So nothing on this? Nobody has any ideas?

[Rob]

Post by r***@public.gmane.org
So nothing on this? Nobody has any ideas?

Just set the sorting order with the newest on top and learn to live
with that, will take only a couple of days before you realize that
this is so much better because you can see your new messages without
having to scroll.