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Question

Changing the automatic display of incoming messages in OE

Jun 16, 2014 2:23PM PDT

Up until now when I opened OE it has always gone directly to the most recent message but now, for some reason, it has started to go to the oldest entry, which is a pain when I have numerous un-deleted messages on the list. Can anybody tell me how to change back to the most recent?
My OS is Windows XP.

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Best answer I can come up with, off the top of my head,
Jun 16, 2014 9:42PM PDT

is that you have the existing email sorted by date order, in Reverse.
That means that the oldest emails are at the top with the newest at the bottom.

Simply click at the top of the Date column to reverse the sort and you should be good to go

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Besr answer
Jun 17, 2014 1:23AM PDT

That's the way I have always had it sorted with the oldest at the top, then when I opened OE it would automatically go to the newest at the bottom, and that's the way I would like it to do it again instead of going to the oldest at the top.

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Jun 17, 2014 4:08AM PDT

I don't know what happened, but now it is back to the way it was before without me doing anything, so I'm happy again. Thanks for trying to help.