285931 - Sort emails by domain and name within domain

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050309
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050309

If you click on the Sender or Recipient fields Mozilla sorts the emails in the
order of the email address.

Depending on how the email address was originally formulated [with/without
identity, First name/last name or last name/first name] you may not get the
desired results and over which you have no control.

Are there hidden fields that allow the address to be broken down into its
component parts [Identity, User Name, Domain], or constructed in a different
order, so that emails from the same domain can be grouped together, optionally
followed by the user name or identity?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Related: Bug 157976

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Not clear if bug 157976 should be a blocker.  And not safe to assume it will
deliver what's asked here, because secondary sort of 157976 could be name, date
or some other field.  So simply confirming