Each time I open KMail for the first time (after starting KDE), the selection in the message list looks weird to me.
When I have new e-mails, I would have expected that the first or the last of these new messages was selected.
If I don't have new messages, the most recent message should be selected.

It looks to me that now the latest message which doesn't have a fancy date, is selected.
I tried to change the date display from Fancy Format to Localized Format and Standard Format but it doesn't change anything.

To explain myself a bit better, I posted a screenshot on the web:
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/3287/kmail.png

This screenshot is taken right after KDE is started and when I have opened KMail by clicking on the envelope icon in the bottomright corner.
As you can see the message with timestamp "20/11/11 23:49" is selected.
I would have expected that the message at top with timestamp "Today 00:32:57".

An extra weird thing is that the message at the top at first wasn't visible because the scrollbar was not at the top but somewhat in the middle.
I had to manually move the scrollbar upwards to see the new e-mail.

Is there a parameter somewhere in KMail to change this way of selecting?

I'm using KMail 1.13.6 and KDE 4.6 under Arch Linux.

Kind regards

Try checking KMail's settings. On the Misc page you should see a place to select the action when you open KMail. I prefer it to be "last read message" but you probably prefer "first new message".

Yes. That was the solution.
Thanks.

Thanks. This helped me, too.