311210 - Sort by thread and date using column headings, instead of View menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219787

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Pedro Soria-Rodriguez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.7 (20050923)


Using Thunderbird 1.0.7

In Thunderbird it is possible to go to View -> Sort by -> Threaded,  and then,
again to View -> Sort by ->  Date

In this way, messages that are not within a thread, and which have a date
older/newer than the thread, will be placed before/after the thread. THis is
expected correct behaviour.   This is a sort by "thread and then by date".

However, it is not possible to achieve the same by clicking on the column header
in the message list pane.  That is, by clicking on the "date" column, and then
on the "thread" column, does not sort by "thread and then by date".

Right now, by clicking on the "thread" column, the effect is "sort by thread,
then by order received".  

"Sort by thread, then by date" is more useful,  given that messages in a folder
may have been copied in any arbitrary order, but the user wants to view them in
"sort by thread, then by date",  (when using threads, that is).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The capability is there, but you need to change a hidden preference.  Add this 
line to prefs.js:
  user_pref("mailnews.thread_pane_column_unthreads", false);
(This will be easier when you update to 1.5, which has the "about:config"-style 
preference editor.

See bug 234690 comment 14.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219787 ***