#3649: Sorting by 'To: ' does not work right
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Reporter: grarpamp | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: 1.6
Component: mutt | Version: 1.5.21
Resolution: | Keywords: sorting
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Comment (by grarpamp):
> Many users (including me) have various e-mail addresses. Sorting by
e-mail address would not work well, unless some more general form of
alternates is added.
No one suggested removing or changing the current behavior, so it will
work fine, just add the new sorting methods, those who need them can
select in gui and/or add them as default to muttrc.
Users with "various" different email addresses (whether or not all their
GECOS are the same) probably need to be able to define "sort_group =
me[n], n=1,2,..., me is arbitrary label" context lists of such addresses
in muttrc, so that any sort by the current/modified (from/to) will group
them all together in one index location. Since the primary sort order
there is current/modified (from/to), the muttrc "sort_group" definitions
should then include "sort_aux" capabilities from all available subsort
methods... date, recv, subj, thread, unsort, size, score, spam,
current/modified (from/to), etc.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3649#comment:4>
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