Messages pane doesn't automatically scroll down

Question

In Outlook Express, when the list of messages is from oldest to newest, as new messages arrive, the list of messages automatically scrolls down to display those new messages.
Out of the box, Thunderbird doesn't do that. You may be aware that there are new messages because Thunderbird has alerted you, but you don't see those messages until you manually scroll down.
Is there any way to get Thunderbird to mimic Outlook Express?

Answer 1

mailnews.default_news_sort_order; Value = 1
mailnews.default_sort_order; Value = 1
This means your default sort order is ascending.
(Value = 2 means descending.)
i'm wondering if you have something set to overrule the scroll to incoming new messages....Done some digging around and located this info....
If you have a setting that remembers the last selected message, it may be overruling incoming new messages. This would mean that you can continue reading mail from where ever you last stopped, even if new mails arrived. So, thunderbird may scroll initially on startup if new messages have arrived, but thereafter it might not auto scroll because of the setting to remember last selection.
So, I therefore think that if you want to remember last message you would not be using auto scroll, so the auto scroll would be false. However, you have this set to true and want auto scroll, so try to turn off the remember last message preference and note the effects.
Please check this setting in the 'Config Editor as before.
top search type 'remember'
mailnews.remember_selected_message
Value = true would switch on the remember last message and could be overriding the scroll.
Value = false (respectively switches off the preference).
Suggest you double click on the line to toggle to 'false'.
close the window - top right X
click on OK to save changes to Options.
Close and reopen Thunderbird.
If the effects of changing this do not suit you, change the setting back to 'true'.