249808 - Wrong sorting of threads (newsgroups)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 262319

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Yves Goergen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

This problem only affects newsgroups, mail folders are OK. Threaded view enabled
in both cases.
If a new message arrives for a newsgroup thread, this thread should be placed at
the top of the list, when "sort by date descending threaded" is selected. But it
stays where it is, and this may be some pages further down where I won't see it.
Re-clicking on the already selected "descending" in the sort menu helps to
re-sort threads correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See threaded newsgroup view
2. Send a message to a thread some pages down
3. See the thread doesn't come up but gets marked as unread

Actual Results:  
see steps

Expected Results:  
correct sorting as selected

Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227722 ***

Comment 2

[Yves Goergen]

I don't think, this is the same as 227722. That one says, mail gets sorted by
the first message, not the last. This is not correct, mail does get sorted by
the last message. But the behaviour is inconsistend, which makes me feel unsafe
with TB. When new mail arrives in the newsgroup, it's just added to the thread,
but that thread is not sorted correctly then. When I select the *already
selected* "descending" menu item, it's sorted correctly. This should be done in
the moment new mail arrives, right?

Comment 3

[Bogdan Stroe]

Well, you might be right about the cause of the problem (an update is needed
when new mail arrives, as oposed to a bad sort criteria), but it still is the
same problem: the threads are not in the correct order after new mail arrives.

So I think is more useful to discuss this in a single bug, then having separate
ones.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Yves is correct, this problem is quite separate from that in the purported dupe.
This bug appears similar to bug 207766.

Threads are not dynamically repositioned in the thread pane when new items 
arrive for them.  Instead, the threads are ordered within the pane according to 
which ones first get new messages during the message retrieval.

The simple workaround is to either click the column header (twice, if it's 
default) or to exit the group and re-enter, which will resort the existing 
threads. 

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 250178 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262319 ***