Closed Bug 268981 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Virtual Folders always sort first by location upon opening folder

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(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

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(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: pkruegerY, Assigned: Bienvenu)

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fix
765 bytes, patch
Details | Diff | Splinter Review 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Created a virtual folder that searches across two folders.  Clicked on the date
column to sort by date regardless of folder.  When I open a different folder and
then return to the virtual folder, it groups the messages by location first, and
then in order by date.  The date column, however, is still highlighted, so it
should be ordering by date, regardless of location.  If I click on the date
column, it then sorts correctly (in the opposite direction), and a second click
on the Date column gives the correct listing.  But then if I go to another
folder and come back, it's back to grouping by location.
Looks to be related to issue 268026, but described differently.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a virtual folder that searches across two or more folders.
2. Click on the Date column to sort by Date received.
3. Click on another folder (virtual or static doesn't matter).
4. Click back on the Virtual Folder to see the message ordered by date, but
grouped first by location.

Actual Results:  
Messages were grouped by location first, and then ordered by date.

Expected Results:  
Message should be ordered by date without grouping by location.
Also seen in GNU/Linux on i386 (GTK2+XFT).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: MacOS X → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Happens on Win as well from beginning of implementation.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
*** Bug 270033 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Reporter: Are you using POP or IMAP?  What do you mean by location - do you mean
by Account?
(In reply to comment #4)
> Are you using POP or IMAP?  What do you mean by location - do you mean
> by Account?

I confirmed this bug after I saw it in virtual folders across POP accounts, but 
I doubt the account type makes a difference.

What happens is, when you enter a folder and it performs the search, it displays 
the messages in the order it finds them -- items from the first folder searched, 
then items from the second folder, etc -- just like regular old Search Messages 
does.  When the search is complete, it does not resort.
(In reply to comment #4)
> Reporter: Are you using POP or IMAP?  What do you mean by location - do you mean
> by Account?

To search by location please edit saved search properties and select at least
two folders to search.
(In reply to comment #4)
> Reporter: Are you using POP or IMAP?  What do you mean by location - do you mean
> by Account?

What others were saying is the same for me.  By location I mean folders (not
accounts).  I am using IMAP personally.  I used the term "location" because
that's the name of the column in the search results.  Perhaps that should be
changed to "Folder" for this reason?
*** Bug 270806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 270905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
All these bugs could be the same, IMHO: the problem is always the
non-persistence of the sort order in virtual folders. 

Bug# 268026
Bug# 265869
Bug# 268981

Access protocols (POP/IMAP/local) seem to play no role in this. 

Please inspect further! 
Thanks, and keep up the good work!
*** Bug 265869 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 268026 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 272966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Attached patch fix — — Splinter Review 
I mistakenly attached this patch to bug 271632
Assignee: mscott → bienvenu
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
The patch doesn't seem to be included in the nightly build on
http://www.mozilla.org/developer/. I just installed the Thunderbird build for
Windows but the behaviour is still the same as before.
I confirm this problem as RESOLVED-FIXED in Thunderbird nightly trunk
03-May-2005 0850.  Thank you!
*** Bug 291731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fix verified with TB 1.0 + 0506, Win2K.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
*** Bug 296122 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The bug still exist in 1.0.6 :(((
yup, the 1.0x releases contain mainly security fixes - the next major tbird
release will have this fix.
*** Bug 307684 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug still exists in 1.0.7 20050923 on Win2K
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