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It's when "downloading (new/old?) messages from the server".

I'd just decided to try a different column arrangement, and switched to "created" instead of "received" - exactly as you have just described.

I'll see how it goes.

Thank you.  
01 October 2025 11:23:13, Chris Ramsden.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16655/message58215/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16655/message58215/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:23:13 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Selection jumping while downloading Can't read the selected message in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.

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Chris Ramsden wrote:
downloading backed up messages
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Do you mean you view messages as they are being restored from a TB backup, or are you downloading (new/old?) messages from the server?

I've never tried the former (if possible at all), but in all other cases having the messages sorted by creation time (in descending order) never caused such issues.
25 September 2025 21:28:01, Miloš Radovanović.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16655/message58207/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16655/message58207/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:28:01 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Selection jumping while downloading Can't read the selected message in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
When I have just opened The Bat! and it is still downloading backed up messages, I see this very irritating behaviour; if I select one message to read, either in the preview pane or in a separate standalone pane, then when the list of messages is updated as new ones are added (or more problematically, inserted), the selection (highlight) effectively moves to another message and so I don't get to read the one I selected.

I would think this is because the list is stored internally as an indexed list, and as new messages are added and the list is re-sorted to accommodate them, the index numbers will keep changing to reflect each transient state of the list. I can see that it would be hard work to track the selection, particularly if the selection is based on the list's item index.

I think this issue is down to dynamic re-sorting of the list, but I am wondering if there is a sort mode (or a non-sorting mode) that allows the initial order to be maintained such that the index doesn't change.

Does anyone else see this? Does anyone else have a workaround for this?  
24 September 2025 18:58:01, Chris Ramsden.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16655/message58199/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16655/message58199/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:58:01 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client