135930 - Sorting mail by order of appearance

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 123786

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Jens Fallesen]

It is nice that mail can be sorted on all fields available in the mail overview
pane. However, it would sometimes be most useful to sort the emails by order of
appearance in the mailbox.

If the mailbox is not threaded, it is often most useful to sort mail by date,
but sometimes a mail comes in with a way off date and it gets badly misplaced.

In principle, this would be not sorting the mail at all, except that it would
sometimes be nice to have them in reverse order of appearance.

I am aware that as of now there is no indication in the message as to when it
actually arrived in the mailbox, but the order in which the mails lie in the
mbox file is at least correct.

Note that the requested feature is not identical to the sorting you sort by the
green "new" indicator column because this would put read mail ahead of unread
and thus not necessarily be by order of appearance.

Comment 1

[laurel]

I believe we already have a sort available in the menu item View|Sort By|order
Receoved... is that not what you're requesting?

Comment 2

[Jens Fallesen]

I believe that is the feature. I wonder how I missed it when actually looking in
that menu...

Anyway, it would still be nice to be able to do it directly by clicking in the
header bar, even though I am not quite sure how it would be implemented--after
all, there is no field for received date.

I guess a such could be implemented but of course this would require saving the
date and time on which the mail was received by Mozilla. Would this information
be useful, rather than the information on when the message arrived in the
mailbox on the server?

Comment 3

[Jens Fallesen]

There seems to be a problem with the feature in the menu--if I select sorting by
"order received" it works fine but next time I start Mozilla, it goes back to
date sorting.

Am I the only one seeing this problem?

Comment 4

[laurel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123786 ***

Comment 5

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate.