> You leave messages in your inbox that you need to deal with if you can’t resolve
> them with a quick reply when you read them. And then those messages often drift
> down in the box, off the first screen.

I use VMS MAIL for all of my email stuff, and have for 15 years or so. It lists
messages in the order received. I've always wondered why other programs list
newest messages first (even if this can be set by the user, newest first is usually
the default). Thus, quite the opposite from drifting down the screen and out of
sight, the older the message, the more often one is reminded of it. If enough
are in one folder that they don't all fit on the screen, there's a note at the
bottom of the screen saying that there are more, so new messages can't be easily
missed unintentionally either.