sorting email by "Subject" needs a secondary sort on "Date" (prefereably oldest first).

[John Cooley]

Binary package hint: evolution

The "Subject" sort (clicking on the "Subject" field header bar button - whatever you want to call it) does group particular subjects together. However, there is no other order apparent in the sort. These message groups should have a secondary date sort, but dropping through a particular "Subject" grouping becomes confusing right away. First off the original message (the one without the "RE:" added on doesn't appear at the top (or bottom on second click of "Subject"), and trying to follow a chain requires manually comparing the dates yourself. The secondary sort should be based on the value that appears in the "Date" field.

Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589490

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

as per comments on the upstream report
"You can set up this sorting explicitly by right-click on the message list
fields at the top. Customize Current View -> Sort lets you define up to four
sorting criteria.
"
just not easy to discover, closing the report, thanks.