231184 - Clicking on threading header overrides sort order

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219787

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Bill Sheppard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031214
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031214

If looking at mail sorted by date, clicking on the threading column header
overrides date sort order, with the result that threads are sorted by the date
of the first message (I think).  I believe the behavior when pressing the
threaded column header should be identical to the behavior of selecting View /
Messages / Threaded, which maintains sorting by date, resulting in the generally
more useful result that threads are sorted by most recently received message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on Date column header to sort by date
2. Click on Threading column header

Arrow on Date column header will disappear; messages will be sorted by first
received message in thread.

Proper behavior can be achieved by:

1.  Click on Date column header to sort by date
2.  Click on View / Messages / Threaded

Arrow will still be indicated on date column header; messages will be sorted by
most recently received message in thread.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Duplicate described a fix that is in place, in 1.6b and subsequent builds.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219787 ***