305202 - New incoming messages should not be sorted

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Eric J. Schwarzenbach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

One little thing is different about Thunderbird mail sorting from other mail
clients I've used, which isn't very helpful. It may be technically the simplest
and most straightforward thing to do, but not really what a user wants. That is:
when new messages come into the inbox, Thunderbird immediately moves them to
their sorted position. Other mail clients will put them at the end of the list
where you are sure to see them. Sorting is treated like an action that occurs
when you click one of the headers, not a permanent, dynamically enforced state
as Thunderbird seems to treat it.

Normally I have messages sorted by date. If a new message comes in with a
timestamp which is incorrect, it may not appear where I will see it. This is
especially annoying in spam, which quite often comes in with a bogus date, and
I'm always finding old spam I never noticed way back in my inbox. It's less
common with real email, but more harmful if it does. Yes, in theory people
should never be sending incorrectly dated email, but it DOES happen from time to
time, and this behavior could cause such a message to be entirely missed by the
user.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Place incoming messages at the end of the list. Only sort, when list headers or
clicked, or perhaps when opening the folder.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

If you want that, you should sort the inbox by 'order received' (that's possible
in T-bird 1.0+, I don't know if it's in 1.0.6). 

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 
> One little thing is different about Thunderbird mail sorting from other mail
> clients I've used... 

which ones?

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Eric does `order received' not fulfill your needs? If it does fulfill them, then I will resolve this bug as INCO in 3 weeks.

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

No additional useful information since last comment -> resolving incomplete.

Please comment if the issue still occurs in the latest supported 2.0.0.14 / trunk nightlies.