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Sorting E-Mails by date does not sort related E-Mails #319

Closed Bluejanis closed 1 week ago

Bluejanis commented 1 week ago

First, I prefer to sort all emails descending by date. I usually have to sort each folder once individually. (I think there is a Firefox setting for all folders, but it is not applied. I still have to check that function in Betterbird.)

I still experience two bugs when sorting emails descending by date:

  1. Sorting regular E-Mails works fine, but once there are related E-Mails they are bunked together and the sorting is not applied anymore. For example, these E-mails are all ordered incorrectly (still ascending by date): Email1

  2. Also, when I close the view of the related E-Mails, it sorts the E-Mail in the correct spot, but shows the wrong date. It does not show the date of the e-mail, but instead shows the date of the first related e-mail. For example, this shows the date from an E-Mail from 2022: Email2 To me, it is very confusing, that old emails are preferred over new emails.

Both issues exist in Thunderbird, and are also still present in Betterbird.

Bluejanis commented 1 week ago

I am also wondering, how the system decides whether emails are related or not. Because it also does it for unrelated emails (but same sender) for me.

Betterbird commented 1 week ago

This is how threading works. Threads are sorted by the date of the last message in the thread, but if the thread is collapsed, the first message in the thread shows. It's been like this for well over 20 years. For improvements, see Issue #160 and Issue #245.

If you're wondering, you can contact our support, no need to file a bug. Messages are related via the Message-ID:, References: and In-Reply-To: headers. Please inspect the message source.