Sort thread in sent by the latest e-mail in the thread, not by the date of the first e-mail
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The title says it basically all - when I look at sent, threads are sorted according to a first mail in any given thread. Which is kind unfortunate - often I want to check what I just sent and sometimes I reply to old e-mails and they are hard to find.
I guess Icould turn off threaded view but I quite like that (especially since I cannot turn it off per view, it is a global setting).
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That's basically how M2 does it for threads in all views. You sort the list by date, but when a reply to a thread comes in, it makes the whole thread jump up to the top (or bottom) of the list (depending on whether you're sorting in descending order by date or ascending order by date). It's nice.
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Indeed, I miss this from M2. But gmail does this two, I would have thought it was standard.
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@felagund said in Sort thread in sent by the latest e-mail in the thread, not by the date of the first e-mail:
when I look at sent, threads are sorted according to a first mail in any given thread. Which is kind unfortunate - often I want to check what I just sent and sometimes I reply to old e-mails and they are hard to find.
I was coming here to complain of something similar when I found this thread.
I was looking at my Received Mails. This list is sorted by date (and, as I understand, there is no other way to sort at the moment). As you can see in the snapshot below (I moved some of the columns around to make for an easier snapshot) the mail from Booking.com seems very out of place. That is because I forwarded it to someone else yesterday, hence it appearing with the rest of yesterday's email... Another email I received on Friday (Sex) but forwarded only on Saturday (Sáb) also seems out of order.
Either that header needs a better name (what Date is date?) or this sort needs fixing... I'm more inclined to the later but I'm open to arguments proving me wrong...
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@pauloaguia if you look at the booking.com mail, does it say that it is both in your received and your sent folder?
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@wildente Actually no. It does not show up in my Sent messages at all:
It does, however, show up at the Sent Folder on that particular mail account (it's the email forwarded to Gail):
Come to think of it, I believe I forwarded that email from GMail and not from Vivaldi. Nevertheless, as one can see in the snapshot of my previous comment, Vivladi's mail client did recognized it as a forward...
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@pauloaguia Even more, both the original and forwarded email show up on All Messages, nicely threaded and everything.
Anyway, I've been able to replicate this with other emails and have just posted it to the bug tracker as VB-81615 (mentioning both the strange email absence, as well as the impact it has in the sort order)
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Thank you for your bug report. I am just writing to note that the original issue has been solved - now it sorts threads by the date of the last e-mail in the thread and it has done so for a few months I think.
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@felagund and @pauloaguia Is this the threaded view you want?
To get it you'll need to select either 'All Messages' or an 'Account'.
Selecting a specific folder, such as 'Sent', limits the threading to that one folder and can't show the full thread. To get the full thread you must pull data from all folders in an account.
The way it works is easier than other clients (e.g. Evolution) where you need to select the account and search to get the desired result. Here you just select All Messages or the Account and it's done. Of course you can refine it further in the search field.
I don't really see a bug in the threading. However, there are attachments in the emails shown but they are not marked that way.
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@simplesam Thank you Sam, but I do know how to get the threaded view (I even mentioned in my previous message that the mails were showing up nicely threaded in the All Messages folder ) , that was not my point.
This thread is about the way threading affects sorting by date. In my case, I was talking about mails in a thread that don't appear threaded because of the view they're in (as you pointed out, if I'm looking at the Sent messages, only the sent messages will appear, not the whole thread). However, the rest of the mails in the thread, even though they're not visible in that view, are still affecting the sort order, leading to some very odd ordering like the one I posted about above...
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@pauloaguia Paulo, thanks for your patient, detailed explanation. My comprehension was apparently m.i.a. here. Please pardon the digression.
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