1267597 - More 'Correpondents' column sort options.

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[Anje]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160407164938

Steps to reproduce:

Using Correspondents column header - 'Sort by correspondents'




Actual results:

Currently sorts alphabetically by Correpondent.


Expected results:

As the 'Correspondents' column can now shows names of incoming and outgoing, there will be the need to do different types of sorting.
Ability to sort incoming from outgoing and ability to reverse that sort with additional abilities to sort alphabetically.
Ability to select 'show only incoming' and 'show only outgoing'
Ability to sort all alphabetically and the reverse without sorting by incoming/outgoing.

How would the 'Group by Sort' work in cases where there are both incoming and outgoing?
At the moment it sorts alphabetically by date which is probably fine if you do not mind having a mix of incoming and outgoing, but how to set it up so that sorted by incoming, name, date then followed by any outgoing for same name in date order. Just thinking out a loud here :)

If the arrow really was a separate column, then it could be used to sort by incoming or outgoing leaving the actual 'Correspondents' column to sort alphabetically.

Another idea:
Perhaps the Quick Filter Bar could help with this issue and have 'Show only incoming', 'show only outgoing' additional sort icons which are only available if the 'Correspondents' column header is selected. Thoughts ?