Re: [Evolution] How to sort by label?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 20:29, Mark R. Bowyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 07:47, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > ...  Vfolders -- IMO Evolution's best unique feature -- work much 
> > better for me in a situation where I want to easily group labels or 
> > other characteristics.  ...
>
> Sorry to be pedantic, but this isn't a feature unique to or new in Evo. 
> It first appeared, to my knowledge, in CDE's "DtMail" application, there
> called "Views".  I'm addicted to them to help me sort through my email
> in the morning, so I can deal with important customer emails quickly
> first, and then read through all mail to different email alias topics
> later, in little groups.

Just dont let marketing hear you say it :)

Someone told me about something called Rome, i think, from memory(?),
some Solaris product, years ago, which also had views.


> It was the fact that Evo had vfolders, so I could migrate my Views rules
> over and still use that functionality, that sold me on Evolution over
> all the other mail clients available to me under Gnome. =O)

Good to hear it proved adequate in that regard.


As to the original question, no, unfortunately you can't sort on label,
you can only sort on things which can be set as columns in the view. 
Its something we should probably remember to add for 1.6.