How to make most recent messages appear at the top of the list?

Question

I can not find a place in Mail preferences to make my messages in each mailbox ALWAYS appear with the most recent at the top of the list. They seem to revert to the reverse order, even though I laboriously change the order in each mailbox via clicking the top of the date column. I am using primarily .Mac addresses in IMAP format, and three computers. It seems that after I shut down, then restart the next day and my computers all sycn with .Mac, the order goes back to oldest first. How can I fix this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Everytime i have used webmail, the view is always retained with my previous settings. In fact the .Mac web mail help menu says the same thing (see below)
Therefore the last thing i would recommend is to simply reset safari (which will empty the cache), delete all your Mail plist files, and not turn .Mac sync on fully until all systems are sorting consistently on their own....
(from the .mac help menu)
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Sorting message lists
When you use .Mac Mail on the web, you can sort your messages, drafts, and sent messages lists by their column headers. Sorting is helpful when you want to quickly locate specific emails or groups of emails, such as all messages received from a specific sender or all flagged messages.
To sort a message list:
If you're not already in .Mac Mail on the web, go to www.mac.com and click Mail (at the top of the page), and log in.
Access a message list by opening a folder.
Click any column header to sort the list by that parameter. Clicking the same column header again reverses the order in which the list is sorted.
When you sort a message list, all email messages in the list are sorted, not just those showing on the current page.
Column headers vary slightly by list. The Drafts list, for example, has no From column.
After you have sorted a list, it retains that order until you re-sort it.