How can I have the most recent message in a thread shown first and not last

Question

Thunderbird (used in conjunction with Gmail - I believe the term is mail client) message threads commence with the oldest; how can I make Thunderbird messages commence with the latest message?

Answer 1

How do I get around this?
'''Workaround:'''
Right Click on the first email in thread and choose:
'open message in Conversation'
This open in a new tab and will include all emails both received and sent by you in that conversation.
It will appear just like the oiginal view with oldest on top.
Then click on the thread icon to remove the 'threaded' view.
in my case the list is then sorted by Date with newest on top. So easily identifying the newest email.
But if required you could clickon Date column header.
Additional:
Note: If the new email in the thread is unread:
View > Threads > Threads with unread
This will produce a list of the received emails in the thread
If you then remove the threaded view by clicking on the thread column header, it will list emails by Date in whatever order you desire.
Unfortunately, this only works with an unread email, so once you have read that email you cannot easily do this again to locate the email in the conversation unless you use the Workaround previously described.