222728 - Sort mails news posts by multiple categories

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57898

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Ritz, Bruno]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Currently TB allows sorting by either name, thread, date etc. It would be a nice
enhancement if these categories could be combined (i.e. to sort by thread AND
top thread subject).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

duplicate of bug 57898?, it's same request except that 57898 is for Mozilla MailNews

Comment 2

[Andreas Krüger]

I was going to file a bug that exactly suggests what

   http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57898#c5

suggests for Mozilla Mail.

In my words: Choosing a new column to sort by, should leave rows
with the same key in that column in the relative order in which they
were displayed previously.

E.g., if I have stuff sort by date, and then choose sorging by sender,
my own messages should remain being sorted by date.  That's very convenient,
e.g., when trying to find that suggestion I made a month or so ago.

Comment 3

[bart decrem, not checking bugmail]

Yes, please.  This is especially important when you have a mailbox with
thousands of items in it.  Since mail volumes only keep getting bigger for all
of us, gracefully handling large amounts of mail and assisting users in doing
so, will be a major selling point for any mail client.  

Comment 4

[Mike Fedyk]

Marking depends, since nobody has marked this as a dup yet...

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57898 ***