226667 - sort by thread does not sort messages by date.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Kostub]

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

If I sort the messages by thread. i.e. click on the small thread icon in the top
left corner, then the messages get grouped in threads. But these threads are
displayed in some random order, not in a sorted order by date.

In fact the desired behaviour should be to maintain the current sort column, and
display the messages by threads. I am not sure how this would work for sorts
other than by date. But sort by date should definately be preserved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on the small thread icon in the top left "click to display message threads"
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
the messages get grouped in threads. but are unsorted.

Expected Results:  
the threads should be sorted by date.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See bug 219787 and bug 20385.  Both bugs have fixes in the nightly 1.6b builds; 
please try a 1.6b build (or check back after 1.6 Final is released).

You may want to maintain this bug as a request that "Sort by Thread" 
automatically perform the secondary sort by date, rather than by Order Received 
(as mentioned in the last line of bug 20385 comment 16); otherwise, unless the 
fixes are somehow not working for you, please mark this bug
  Resolved | WorksForMe

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Kostub: v. 1.6 is out; please install it, and confirm whether it addresses the 
problem in this bug.  If it does, please mark this as WorksForMe.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

verifying