Closed Bug 346643 Opened 18 years ago Closed 9 years ago

In read/unread (eyeglasses) view, the two groups should be sorted by date sent.

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57898

People

(Reporter: CarlPonder, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5.0.4 (20060516) I sort my smessages by clicking on the eyeglasses icon, i.e. the read/unread view. Besides arranging the messages into the two groups (unread on top), I want them sorted by date within the two groups. As it is, I see no logical ordering, date or alphabetical or lexicograohic or anything else. I'd recommend that either (a) the messages preserve whatever order had been applied prior to clicking on the read/unread icon, or (b) use the date as the default (ascending if unread goes on the bottom, or descending if unread goes on the top). I *think* I saw the order change when I added messages and also when I compacted the folders. It still didn't make sense though. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click on eyeglasses icon 2. Look at the order of the messages *not* with the green "unread" dots. Actual Results: Messages are not arranged in any order. Expected Results: I would have expected them to be ordered by date. Some of the messages were from as far back as 2003. I don't know if the dates are formatted dufferently on these older messages. Note that sorting by "date" works fine, though. I'm going to log this as an enhancement instead of a bug, though, since it could be argued that there is no defined behavior here to violate.
(In reply to comment #0) > I'd recommend that either (a) the messages preserve whatever order had been > applied prior to clicking on the read/unread icon, or (b) use the date as the > default (ascending if unread goes on the bottom, or descending if unread goes > on the top). The actual secondary order for sorting is "Order Received" which is usually close to "Date" but can be very different, especially for local folders where you've copied messages (Order Received shows the order in which the messages were copied). The RFE for user-specified multiple sort criteria is bug 57898. Either mark this as a dupe of that, or focus this bug (by changing the summary) on your suggestion (b).
Ok -- following Mike's recommendation -- I think that secondary-sorting by "sent" date would be the most useful default.
Summary: Messages are sorted uselessly when I select read/unread (eyeglasses) view → In read/unread (eyeglasses) view, the two groups should be sorted by date sent.
Product: Core → MailNews Core
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Mail Window Front End → MailNews: Backend
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
Product: Thunderbird → Core
QA Contact: front-end → backend
Hardware: PC → All
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Secondary sorting has been implemented in bug 57898.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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