392546 - Sort by date is broken (order is wrong) in Search Messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 369866

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Vincent Deconinck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4

Symptoms : When searching messages including subfolders, sorting the results by date leads to a wrong sort order (see attached capture).
Analysis : It seems the order is applied on blocks of messages contained in the same folder (see Location column), like an "order by Location, Date"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In SeaMonkey Mail, open Tools > Search Messages
2. Select a folder containing subfolders, and check the "Search subfolders" option
3. Enter a criteria matched by many e-mails in multiple folders
4. Click "Search"
5. Click on the "Date" column header to sort by date
Actual Results:  
Sort order is globally wrong, even though it is correct inside each Location

Expected Results:  
All messages should by ordered by Date

Workaround : explicitly sorting by Location (by clicking on the header), then sorting again by Date gives the correct order

Comment 1

[Vincent Deconinck]

Attachment: Screenshot of symptom

Notice how sort order is globally wrong, but it is correct "per Location"

Comment 2

[Jürgen 'JiHa' Harter]

WFM on
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007081719 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

Comment 3

[Vincent Deconinck]

Confirmed working in 2.0a1pre on Windows too (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007081902 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre). Great !

Probably not worth fixing on 1.x as it's been there for a long time and nobody complained about it except me :-). Feel free to resolve as WONTFIX...