580855 - Won't Sort By Unread Then Date

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57898

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[thestenz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 3.1.1

Email list sort does not sort by unread then date like Version 2, Netscape Mail, Microsoft Entourage, and every other mail program I can think of.After unread mail, mail is sorted haphazardly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Sort by unread.
2.Will not work ascending or descending.
3.
Actual Results:  
Unread mail is followed by haphazard list of of read messages not sorted by date.

Expected Results:  
Unread mail sorted by date at top, followed by read mail sorted by date as in previous versions.

See above.

Comment 1

[Tim McNerney]

I don't get a random order, but it in some mailboxes I get Unread in descending order followed by descending order of read messages, but in other mailboxes I get Unread in descending order followed by read mail in *Ascending* order!  This means that I get my newest, most important mail followed by my *oldest* least important mail next.

Comment 2

[Tim McNerney]

I stand *slightly* corrected.  Now both my inboxes are sorted with unread in one order and read messages in the *opposite* order--most annoying.  Is there a workaround to make 3.1.2 be like previous versions?  (or should I just downgrade?)

Comment 3

[Tim McNerney]

Right...  This is insane!  As soon as you read a message, the next time you come back to that inbox (I have two), the window scrolls way down to the bottom, because the unread messages are at the top and read messages are at the bottom of the list.