Re: [Evolution] Problems sorting by multiple criteria

[Eric Newman <enewman ati com>]

I ran into this with trying to sort the tasks by multiple criteria. I
found a bug on bugzilla for it, so it is a known issue. You could add
your experience with the bug when sorting mail, because it's only for
tasks right now:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44645

-Eric

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 15:58, P. J. Reed wrote:
> First, I'm using Mandrake 9.1 and Evolution 1.4.3.
>
> I would like the have the mail in my inbox sorted first by date, and
> then by status; that way, all unread mail will be at the top, but both
> read and unread mail will be sorted within themselves by date.
>
> Now, I assume the correct way to do this is to right-click on the
> headers above the message listing, go to "Customize Current View," click
> the "Sort" button, then pick "Date" in the first drop-down box and
> "Status" in the second.  However, if I click OK and apply the rules, it
> seems to ignore all but the last rule; in fact, if I go back to that
> box, it says the messages are only sorted by status.
>
> I looked through a bit of the archives and didn't see anything that
> seemed to be this problem, so am I the only person encountering it?  Or
> has nobody else tried this?  I have tried it on two different computers,
> and the results were the same on both.
>
> Thanks,
> P. J. Reed
>
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