231945 - sort by watched threads and by date

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Doug]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031015 Firebird/0.7 (aebrahim)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 (20031205)

One feature I *really* miss from OE, particularly for newsgroups, is the way OE
flags entire threads.  I really want to be able to flag an entire thread *and*
to sort the thread/message list by date, but with the flagged threads at the top
of the unflagged threads.  I still return to OE for news at times because of
this feature.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Option doesn't exist
2.
3.




I opened this RFE on Thunderbird, because that's what I use now, but it applies
equally to Mozilla Mail.

Comment 1

[Doug]

Actually, I see now that I can mark the whole thread with "Watch thread". 
Missed that since there doesn't seem to be a way to do it by clicking in the
flag or thread columns.  A way to do this would be a nice addition, but sorting
by watched threads is what I'm really requesting.

Comment 2

[Mike Fedyk]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Actually, I see now that I can mark the whole thread with "Watch thread". 
> Missed that since there doesn't seem to be a way to do it by clicking in the
> flag or thread columns.  A way to do this would be a nice addition, but sorting
> by watched threads is what I'm really requesting.

Then you need to change the summary to "sort by watched threads and by date",
and you need to depend on the "multi-level sorting" bug.

Comment 3

[Doug]

Changed summary.  Haven't found "depends" bug yet

Comment 4

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

Added dependention on "multi-sort thingy"

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 251707 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

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Comment 7

[Doug]

Please don't close.  Still want a sort by watched and by date.