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I'd suggest that many people split up recent past time using a calendar-week paradigm:
I'd suggest the following categories, similar to those proposed in bug 315114:
• Today
• Yesterday
• Earlier this week (i.e. sometime between the beginning of the current calendar week and the day before yesterday). This category obviously would only exist if today is at least the third day of the week, bearing in mind that different locales start the week on different days. I think this would be more useful than a day-by-day view for earlier than today and yesterday, as by the time we get to, say, Friday, people no longer remember which day at the beginning of the week a message was received.
• Last week (i.e. the previous calendar week, not the current usage)
For older messages I'm not sure which categories would be best, not even how useful it is to continue defining categories. One could argue for "Earlier this month" (where applicable) and "Last month", for example, or use month names in the same way as Firefox history - but IMO we don't want too fine a granularity here either.