On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:28:17 +0100, Sebastien Binet <binet@cern.ch> wrote:
> right now, it seems like the messages are displayed and ordered in my
> inbox according to the date of the *first* message in a thread.
> 
> that doesn't sound right to me as one can easily miss new replies to
> that thread (at least I did.)
> 
> is there a way to modify this in the notmuch emacs interface so that
> threads are ordered according to the *latest* message in a thread
> instead ?

Hi, Sebastien.  You can access the notmuch emacs config parameters by
doing:

M-x customize-group notmuch

There is a variable there called "Notmuch Search Oldest First" that does
what you're looking for.

jamie.