1486843 - Sorting by date fails on new messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1470049

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Heiko Klein]

Attachment: thunderbird_date_ordering.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180704194937

Steps to reproduce:

My thunderbird Inbox is ordered by the Date field so that all new emails should appear at the bottom of the list, together with their complete thread.


Actual results:

When receiving new emails, they may appear anywhere in my Inbox. On the left-hand side, the ordering of the inbox can be seen the bottom emails is from 13:41, while the last email arrived 16:47.

Only when clicking twice (last dates first, last dates last) on the Date header, the sorting is correct, as shown in the right-hand side of the attached figure.


Expected results:

New emails should automatically be put into the correct order without the need to reorder. This was the case until thunderbird 60.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Your screen shot is showing more than inbox. Is it a virtual folder?

Comment 2

[Heiko Klein]

Yes, you are right, my Inbox is a unified folder of 2 mail-accounts, combining both outgoing and incoming mails.

Comment 3

[S. Christian Collins]

I am also now seeing this bug since upgrading to Thunderbird 60 (1:60.0+build4-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 from the thunderbird-next PPA running in KDE neon Bionic). The issue does seem to only affect unified folder view.

Comment 4

[bugzilla.2024]

Sam problem here, with saved search folders on thunderbird 60.2.1 (64-bit)

Comment 5

[frank.schaper]

Similar, but not the same problem here since the update to 60.3: 

I have two accounts joined in a unified INBOX folder. New messages do appear at the bottom of the list. However, new messages which are in a threaded conversation do move the whole thread to the top of the window above the oldest message.

- This does not happen in the individual INBOX folders of the two accounts, only in the unified INBOX.
- This does not happen if view is switched to "unthreaded" .
- The behavior persists even if all add-ons are disabled and after computer restart. 

Windows 7 Pro / Thunderbird 60.3.0 (32-bit)