217487 - Mail/News irregularly forgets 'sort by thread' preference

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 180604

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Christian Hamacher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030813
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030813

I always read news in view|sort|threaded mode. I have only one NNTP server
configured (leafnode on local machine). Occasionally, with no pattern emerging
so far, news groups seem to forget their sort order: when I access them, they
sometimes come up sorted by date. If this happens, I always reset the sort order
to threaded, but sooner or later, they are sure to forget again. I believe
(read: I am not absolutely sure) that it has so far never forgotten sort order
between restarts of Mozilla - I'll keep an eye on it and update if I see this
happening. 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to a news group
2. Have it sorted by thread
3. Close Mozilla
4. Restart Mozilla
5. Access the news group
Actual Results:  
Sometimes, the news group comes up sorted by date (default sort order?)

Expected Results:  
It should remember sort order, and thus come up sorted by thread

BTW, I'm not sure about the Component: is this 'Mail Database', or is it front-
or backend?

Comment 1

[Christian Hamacher]

Still there on Linux trunk CVS 11/11/03

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

hmm, does it redownload headers, or just forget that you're sorted by thread? Is
this after a quick search or something like that?

Comment 3

[Christian Hamacher]

It just forgets that I selected 'Sort by Thread' - btw., my original report
contains a slight mistake: sort order reverts to 'Order Received', not 'Date'.

I'm sure that it's never been after a quicksearch *in the same group*, since it
always happens after switching newsgroups (either from another newsgroup, or
from reading mail) - if it happens, I'll find the new group to be sorted 'Order
Received', which I never intentionally use.

In case you mean 'after doing a quicksearch in any other group or mailfolder',
I'm not so sure. I'll still say no, since I don't use quicksearch so often, but
I'm much less certain about it.

Comment 4

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Dupe.

pi

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180604 ***