538312 - Request: allow sorting of message filters by name

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 256582

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Steve Snyder]

I'm passing along a request from my wife, a new Thunderbird user: allow sorting of message rules by rule name (i.e. alphabetically).

She is in the process of manually creating message filters.  This after the TB importer failed to import her existing set of OE rules.  Anyway, she has many, many message rules due to subscribing to many, many blogs.  Given how few rules can be shown in the message filter list at any one time, it is difficult to find a given rule in the list.  Yes, I know the list can be sorted manually with the Up/Down buttons, but that is a time consuming and error-prone job.

The Filter Name title bar at the top of the list box suggests that the list can be sorted by name, but clicking on the title doesn't actually sort the list.

Please, allow sorting message filters by name.  Thanks.