>>> "TH" == Tassilo Horn writes: > Uwe Brauer writes: >> Following your advice to read the documentation more carefully, I tried >> the following setting >> >> (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions >> '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number >> gnus-thread-sort-by-date)) >> >> (setq gnus-sort-functions >> '(gnus-article-sort-by-number >> gnus-article-sort-by-date)) > I guess you want gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date and > gnus-article-sort-by-most-recent-date because gnus-thread-sort-by-date > sorts by the date of the root article. This is what I thought, but then the summary buffer displays the most recent dates first and the beginning of the buffer, which is not what I want as in @ Start of buffer []{ } . 57663 [ Santiago ]