227722 - Bad sort of mail threads when sort by date

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 20385

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Fredrik Sjögren]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U) Opera 7.23  [en]
Build Identifier: All versions

When the lsit of mail in a box is shown as threads and sorted by date the order 
is very strange. The mail threads are sorted by the date of the _first_ mails 
date and not the _last_ mails date. This way you soemtimes get a new mail that 
is placed WAY up in the maillist.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have lots of mails in threads sorted by date
2. Get anew mail inan very old thread
3. Try to find that mail w/o using the "next" button.



Expected Results:  
Do it like "mutt". Move a mailthread down as soon as a new mail is received in 
that thread. Ie, sort the threads by the last mails date instead of the first 
mails date.

Please fix this. This is the last thing that makes it impossible for me to use 
TB as my mailclient. It rocks oterwise but NO mial client besides mutt has 
proper thread sorting.

Comment 1

[Laeb]

All threads are only sorted by ascending date:  we also should be able to sort
them by descending date inside a thread or thread by thread (not only on Linux
but on Windows too).

Comment 2

[Bogdan Stroe]

*** Bug 247932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Bogdan Stroe]

*** Bug 249808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This problem has been fixed since late last year.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20385 ***