590163 - Sort by Date + Grouped by Sort does not work for mail with future Date:

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 478863

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Bergmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100723 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.0.6

Mails with Date: from the future are sorted into a group that cannot be exanded thus making the mails unreadable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive a mail with Date: from the future
2. Sort mails by date
3. Group mails by sort
Actual Results:  
The mail with Date: from the future is sorted into a group with an empty title.
This group with empty title cannot be expanded, the mail is not visible unless the grouping is disabled.

Expected Results:  
Not sure how the UI/UX should be for this, but the current situation is bad.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Bergmann]

Attachment: Screenshot of Thunderbird that shows the problem (mail from the future, Sort by Date + Grouped by Sort)

Comment 2

[Sebastian Bergmann]

Attachment: Screenshot of Thunderbird that shows the same inbox but with Sort by Date + Grouped by Sort disabled

Comment 3

[Sebastian Bergmann]

Also have this problem with latest Thunderbird 3.1 on Windows.

Comment 4

[Daniel Andre Eikeland]

I'm also experiencing this same issue. This also happens when the date is apparently "unknown" (i.e. shows up as 01-01-1970).