Thunderbird inbox: How to auto-scroll to latest email in incoming list?

Question

my emails in Thunderbird (V 17.0.2 on Win 8) are sorted by date, the newest mails are on the bottom of the inbox-list.

I want this behavior: As soon as new emails show up in my inbox, the inbox-list shall directly scroll to the newest emails on the bottom of the inbox list. Currently new incoming emails are added to the inbox-list in the correct date-order BUT the list does not auto-scroll to the last (newest) element in this list. I always have to manually scroll down to see the new incoming emails as they are just below my second-newest emails from my previous mail-fetch.

Alternative way to solve my problem and to clarify: After the email-fetch-task has finished, I would need a plugin that automatically presses the END-key on the keyboard (above the cursor keys).

Is it possible to enable this behavior maybe by a special config-flag in "about:config" (edit configuration)?

Thank you a lot!!!

Thomas

Answer 1

At this moment the behavior reported is a know bug xref bugzilla #539468 and there is not much to do