221389 - Sort by "Priority" actually does sort by "Date"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ian Jeffray]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916

Using the column headings in the mail window, clicking on "Date" sorts by date,
Sender sorts by sender and soforth.  Clicking on "Priority", however, appears to
sort by date - certainly not priority.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive lots of mail with various priorities set
2. Add "Priority" column to the mail listing view
3. Click on "Priority" column header - observe sort order is NOT priority order

Actual Results:  
Sort order appears to be date order, not priority.


Expected Results:  
Should be sorted by priority

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I'm unable to reproduce this symptom.  I have a few messages which show Highest 
in the Priority column, a few which display as "Normal" and a bunch which show 
nothing.  The latter two groups are intermingled, sorted according to "order 
received" (which in most cases is the same as Date), but the Highest pri 
messages are all at the top.  "Order Received" is always the secondary criterion 
used to sort messages, so this appears to be working to me.