I always hated having to go to the bottom to see new emails. I have my inbox and folders set to sort new to old and categorized by week ending data. It makes it easier to find emails and to see how old the emails are.

I was not too hard, because View sort each column by Date in reverse order this one-time operation, but I vote for, because it rightly.

I disagree completely
Logically, the 'next' and 'previous' emails should be 'later' and 'earlier' in time

Additionally, if you have your newest first, when you open an email and, say hit enter (to go to the next) or delete, it goes to an older email, not the next one to be read

Finally, if you read your unread mails from top to bottom, you will see e.g. first a request, then peoples answers, rather than seeing the answers before the request

I loathe this 'feature' in e.g. hotmail, webmail, Lookout, etc.