[Evolution] Default sorting of message lists (was: Again no smooth upgrade from Evolution 3.2 to 3.4)

[Paul Menzel <paulepanter users sourceforge net>]

Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2012, 11:21 +0100 schrieb David Woodhouse:
> On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 09:50 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > 1. The settings for sorting of messages were not kept. I had it on
> > ÂDate before and after starting Evolution 3.4 nothing was selected,
> > which was quite confusing since messages are not displayed where they
> > are supposed too.
>
> The fact that you have to put it on 'Date' is a bug in the first place.
> Evolution should show the messages in the order that they appear in the
> mailbox (which is by the *received* time, not the date in the Date:
> header). You don't want messages with dates in the future to sit at the
> bottom for ages, and you don't want messages which arrive with a date in
> the *past* (perhaps it got delayed in transit) to appear further back in
> the mailbox than other messages which you've already dealt with.

I am using ÂSort after threads which seems to influence the default
behavior.


Thanks,

Paul

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