So Ben-who-has-no-blog and I discussed a feature I have wanted for Evolution for a long time: in threaded view, when one sorts by date received, Evo should consider threads age by the newest message in the particular thread.
Currently on Evolution I am unable to use the threaded view, since my inbox is huge, and when someone replies to a thread that started a long ago, it will be way down on the list, and I very often just miss it. Thus I had to use non-threaded vie, and it sucked too since following discussion is so hard that way.
So turns out this is neat:
What it does, is it matches all mails that have been received after a certain time, and includes the whole thread. Now just sort the mailbox by “date received” or something. It doesnt exactly do what I want, but since it includes only those threads and messages that have new messages since, say, 2 weeks ago, the list is a lot smaller and thus easier to scan through. Of course 95% of it is spam, but that is a whole different problem 
For the record, my Junk folder has 14777 messages, I purged it 2 months ago. That stuff luckily got filtered out of my inbox, but I still get more than enough there. Anyone remember when it was a joy to receive email?
Garrett: I bet the Hasselblad makes a real manly “ka-chunk!” shutter sound too! Nothing like the wimpy Canon D20 Mig has.. ;^)