Re: [Evolution] Sorting Emails by date

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 08:58 +0200, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
> I set up my emails so that the newest email is always at the top of the
> list, i.e. Sort by Date(descending). However, Evolution seems not to be
> consistent in this respect. 
>
> I suspect that Evolution displays one data/time in the message (list)
> window but sorts by another date/time from the several date/time tags
> from among the mails' metadata.
>
> This leads to an (unhelpful) inconsistency in the email sorting is
> displayed. For instance, I have a series of mails in my inbox supposedly
> displayed by date (descending), but showing dates in the following
> order:
> Thu, 3 Oct 2013 17:10:26 +0000 (03/10/13 19:10:26)
> Sat, 28 Sep 2013 19:41:31 +0000 (28/09/13 21:41:31)
> Tue, 1 Oct 2013 15:21:51 +0000 (01/10/13 17:21:51)
> Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:57:00 +0000 (02/10/13 17:57:00)
> Wed, 2 Oct 2013 17:07:41 +0000 (02/10/13 19:07:41)
> Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:39:55 +0000 (28/09/13 22:39:55)
> Wed, 02 Oct 2013 07:41:33 +0200
> Tue, 1 Oct 2013 23:12:43 +0200
> Tue, 1 Oct 2013 23:12:43 +0200
> Tue, 1 Oct 2013 21:10:00 +0000 (01/10/13 23:10:00)
> Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:03:21 +0000 (30/09/13 09:03:21)
> Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:43:41 +0000 (29/09/13 17:43:41)
>
> I have seen this kind of behaviour in Evolution for years but never
> complained about it! Has anyone else mentioned it before?

Do you use Threading? Which Evolution version is this about?
Do you see a small up or down arrow in the column headers of the message
list pane?

Also see
https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-sorting-message-list.html for general information.

andre
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