Re: [Evolution] Sorting mailbox by sender is case sensitive

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 15:42, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> Don't bother filing a bug. The reason it gets sorted like that is
> because we are just using a string comparison right now. We commented
> out the smarter code for performance reasons.

Could you make the sort-method a choice in Mail-Setting or
View?  I can see where it would slow things down if you have
5,000 emails, but not if you only have 300.

> On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 16:26, David Hoover wrote:
> > Should sorting mailboxes by sender really be case sensitive?
> >
> > I just noticed because I was poking through old email trying to look for
> > a specific message, and while working my way forward through stuff from
> > the sender, suddenly jumped back two months, because the capitalization
> > of that person's email address changed in March.
> >
> > 'Some Guy <someguy Domain COM>' is considered a different sender than
> > 'Some Guy <someguy domain com>' for sorting purposes. I can understand
> > Evo not considering 'Nickname Guy <someguy domain com>' or 'Some F. Guy
> > <someguy domain com>' the same, but is there any good reason for this to
> > be case sensitive?
> >
> > If not, I'll file a bug on it

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