BIll Spikowski wrote:
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!
Bill, aren't you a recipient on all the e-mails you receive?? So using
it as a sort criteria would not be real useful, would it??
--
Daniel
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