129202 - Message sorting inconsistent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121588

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[meniscus]

THe message sorting problems in the Mozilla mail client seem to be getting 
worse. If you sort by Label, the labeled messages are sorted properly, but 
unread messages appear at the opposite bookend, and read messages are now 
appearing in random order. 

Until a few builds ago, the unread and read (but not labeled) messages were 
appearing in reverse-chronological order, but were at least consistent within 
themselves. Example:

high-priority label
lesser priority label
read message January 01
read message January 15
read message January 30
unread message February 15

But now, it is even more mixed up. Example:

high-priority label
lesser priority label
read message January 01
unread message February 15
read message January 30
read message January 15

What we need is a secondary sort, by date and time, which would be the 
intuitive, logical result expected.

The way it *should* be:

high-priority label
lesser priority label
unread message February 15
read message January 30
read message January 15
read message January 01


I cannot believe that 0.9.9 is going to be released with such a glaring, 
obvious UI problem in place. There are similar bugs that have been filed for 
some time, but no action is being taken on them... is anyone working on this 
at all? Could we at least get some kind of acknowledgement that there is a 
major bug in the message sorting, and that it will be addressed?

I know you guys are busy (so am I) and I don't want to sound rude or pushy, 
but it seems like alot of far more trivial bugs are being given attention over 
this one.

-Chance

Comment 1

[Karl Johan Kleist]

Reporter: Please set the appropriate severity level. "Critical" is for
"crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak". Thank you for using Bugzilla!

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121588 ***