477926 - Displaying message threads doesn't work correctly.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[sjpschmid]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.19 (20081209)

When I "Click to display message threads" in my Inbox window, the threads appear just fine, but the order of all of the emails gets messed up.  I previously had them sorted by Date. There is no apparent pattern in the new order.  Some, but not all, new emails are sent near the beginning, and some old emails appear near the end.  Very disappointing, as I was pleased to see the message thread capability.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Sort Inbox emails by Date.
2. Click to display message threads.
3. Observe that the order of the emails gets messed up.
Actual Results:  
The order of my Inbox emails got messed up.

Expected Results:  
The emails should still have been sorted by Date, with the Message threads placed according to the Date of the earliest received email in the thread.

Comment 1

[sjpschmid]

I just re-read my submission, and I realized I may not have been completely clear.  It is not the emails WITHIN threads that get displayed in the wrong order.  It is all of the OTHER emails in the Inbox that no longer get sorted in the correct order by date.  Some are in the proper order, but some groups of emails appear in the wrong order.  I'm sorry for any confusion.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

sjpschmid, does version 3 behave much better in this area?  (it should)

Comment 3

[sjpschmid]

hi Wayne,
I just tested, and it appears to work fine in version 3.  Thanks.

Comment 4

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

WFM per comment 3.