MCBastos wrote: > Interviewed by CNN on 23/07/2013 15:33, BIll Spikowski told the world: >> When looking through long lists of archived emails, I often sort by >> sender or recipient or date. >> >> Is there any way to combine these sort methods, for instance sort by >> sender, then secondarily by another column such as date? >> >> When sorting by sender, a secondary sort seems to be automatically set >> according to the recipient's name. Beyond that, the emails seem to >> appear in random order. > > Not my experience. From what I have noticed, when Seamonkey/Thunderbird > sorts a list of e-mails, it starts with the *previous state of the list > as displayed*, not with the list as saved on disk. If several messages > share the same sorting key (for instance, sender), then they are > displayed together but in the same order they were before the sort. > > Which means that you can simply sort twice in a row -- first with the > secondary sort criteria, then with the primary.
Yes -- that works! That explains how to recreate the "secondary sort" I occasionally observed in practice. I tried sorting THREE times (first by date, then by recipient, then by sender) but that was asking too much -- in my example, the date order was ultimately discarded. This is a very helpful feature! _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
