Could you be a bit more vague? (: Perhaps instead of just replacing the numbers with "X" and "Y" you could say "Plus ..." next time. By no means give any concrete details. But more seriously...

Part one:

I now see new messages at the top
and
only setting I changed recently was turning on 'Newest Messages first'
Yes, exactly. That is what you asked for.

Part two:

even if there are more than would be usually displayed
and
claims there are more than I am seeing, which there aren't
Are there more or aren't there?

In other words, I can't reconstruct what the problem you are trying to describe is.

I'll take a wild guess that you thought "newest first" would change the order in which messages are displayed but not which of your unarchived messages are displayed. But, in fact, "newest first" also means "show the newest 10 (by default) instead of the oldest 10" in this new order. We could add another setting to allow separate control of order vs. whether to hide older/newer, but we haven't (and I have no plans to at this point). Or perhaps a documentation update is in order.

If my wild guess is wrong, then I need you to give me some hard details (how many messages you have, which ones display, exact text used in the link to the Message Inbox, exactly what you expected to be different, how you have "max (messages) to display" set, etc.), probably for multiple cases.

                - tye

In reply to Re: Message box displaying incorrectly? (guess) by tye
in thread Message box displaying incorrectly? by castaway

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