Comment 61 for bug 115153

(In reply to comment #17)
> This bug very clearly says that the sort order should be by Date.
> That's the Date in the Date: header.
> That's how this product has worked ever since the beginning of the
> Netscape/mozilla/SeaMonkey/Thunderbird product line.

If you read the comments in this bug, apparently that's not true. 'How it has worked' is that it's used Order Received. However, most people have realised that 'how it has worked' is not always the best way, and that seems to be why this bug is here.

> That's how the vast majority of users expect it to behave.
> It has recently regressed.

Reading the comments to this bug, I don't see anything about a regression. It looks like the normal behaviour is to use 'Order Received'. There is a pref to stop that, but this is the traditional behaviour. I believe it should be changed because it doesn't work well.

> Using this bug as an opportunity to change the long-time behavior
> of the product to suit your personal opinion of a "better" way to
> work neither fixes the bug, nor suits the built-up community of
> users of Mozilla mail/news clients.

A Mozillazine vote will see about that. A *lot* of people prefer Received, maybe even the majority.

> And don't even THINK of saying "but that's how Outlook Express works"!

Bah. OE does a lot of things right. :-)