203676 - With multiple IMAP folders setup, IMAP accounts are not sorted although Title bar indicates sorting.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61078

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[L. Phillips]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

If you have multiple IMAP folders configured in Mozilla, the Name column in the
Left Pane indicates sorting, however display is always in the order the accounts
were created.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create IMAP account named Z-something
2. Create IMAP account named A-something
3. Not display order in Left Pane of Mail/News
4. Clicking on title of column does not resolve sort order
Actual Results:  
IMAP folders are displayed in order created and cannot be sorted in any manner.

Expected Results:  
Display should be sorted either ascending or descending. When dealing with
upwards of 50 IMAP accounts this can become a major headache in locating a
speceific account.

None

Comment 1

[Kai de Leeuw]

This doesn't just seem to be related to IMAP accounts. I have many accounts,
mixed POP3 and IMAP and I see the same thing. That accounts are sorted in order
of creation. The default account is an exception as this account is always put
first in the list. The only workaround is to go into about:config and tweak a
setting there to manually sort the account list.

Please update the summary to correspond to all accounts and not just IMAP accounts.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Please reopen if u disagree that this is a duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61078 ***