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 -- Andre Klapper | [email protected] http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
