On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 15:42, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > Don't bother filing a bug. The reason it gets sorted like that is > because we are just using a string comparison right now. We commented > out the smarter code for performance reasons.
Could you make the sort-method a choice in Mail-Setting or View? I can see where it would slow things down if you have 5,000 emails, but not if you only have 300. > On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 16:26, David Hoover wrote: > > Should sorting mailboxes by sender really be case sensitive? > > > > I just noticed because I was poking through old email trying to look for > > a specific message, and while working my way forward through stuff from > > the sender, suddenly jumped back two months, because the capitalization > > of that person's email address changed in March. > > > > 'Some Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' is considered a different sender than > > 'Some Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' for sorting purposes. I can understand > > Evo not considering 'Nickname Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' or 'Some F. Guy > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' the same, but is there any good reason for this to > > be case sensitive? > > > > If not, I'll file a bug on it -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | Freedom is not free | | Korean War Memorial | +------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
