When starting mail/news is a often necessary to resort the messages in a mail folder by date-decending. This should be a selection remembered between sessions.

wfm - 2001101201

I've also got this problem under WinMe from a few days back. Currently using build 2001112603. As you move around the newsgroups, you often have to resort the messages into Subject order. It seems that although the sort setting (subject order) appears to be remembered, the headers are not sorted correctly on loading that group.

Messages set to display Unread. Threaded is checked. Happens when news/mail window is re-opened

This is the correct sorting, after I manually click the thread button on the top left twice. First time, it sorts in reverse order. Note the circled thread

Created two attachments. This is a group that was sorted by subject,(and correctly remembered its state between sessions). However, upon loading the group, the list is not sorted correctly by subject. From mailpic1.jpg, you can see that on entering the group, News has sorted it incorectly (M,S,O,R,S) However, after clicking on the "subject" header twice (once to sort reverse, and then once again to sort normally) you can see that the sort order has changed (ie is now correctly sorted). This is shown in newspic2.jpg Note that this seems to happen a lot with "Re:" messages. "Re: " should be completey ignored and sorting should be done purely on the real subject line.

Any progress been made on this? I've just checked the latest nightly (2002020409 - afte the .9.8) and it still exhibits this bug as per the screen caps above. Although it is not major, it doesn't instill confidence when trying to get someone to move from other browsers to netscape/mozilla when mozilla can't even sort a mailbox correctly!

Just checked build 2002021503, and its still failing to sort correctly. Can a fix be scheduled or it at least be moved to "confirmed", rather than being left into "unconfirmed" limbo for 4 months ?

this is a duplicate of bug 93655

Are you sure? The 93655 bug states that mail settings do not stick. 107280 States that mail settings do stick, but that sorting does not correctly take place, eg, my settings are for subject order, but when entering the newsgroup messages are sorted via subject order, but not correctly. If this is a dupe (which they don't appaer to be), can this one be properly duped to it instead of being left in unconfirmed limbo?

Since this bug was reported, a newer version of Mozilla (1.0 RC1) has been released. Reporter, please can you check to see whether this bug is still present in a recent build (Moz1-RC1 or a new nightly build). If this bug does not occur please can you resolve the bugreport?

I've been running RC1 since release, and the problem is still there. On initially starting mail/news the problem can be a little hard to find (most of what you see is sorted correctly), but there are always some incorrectly sorted messages. As you leave the mail/news window up and refresh your newsgroups periodically, it becomes more and more likely that your newly shown messages will shown sorted incorrectly. I've attached two more pictures from RC1 that show the problem.

This is on intitially starting mail/news and selecting the newsgroup. Note that the group has correctly remembered its "sort by subject" setting from the previous session, but the sorting has not been done correctly on loading this group.

This is a picture of the same list after clicking the "sort by subject" widgit twice. Once to reverse sort by subject, and then once again to get a forward sort by subject. The initial click to get a reverse sort does correctly resort the messages alphabetically, but in reverse order, so it seems that the sorting mechanism itself does work correctly, but not when you initially select that group to read and get the first listing of the group's messages in the listing window.

Just checked Mozilla 1.0 RC-2. It's still showing the same faulty sorting behaviour as described above.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93655 ***

#17 Please check comment #11 - this is not the same behaviour as 93655. In this bug the sorted state is remembered correctly, but the sorting is not done correctly. In 93655 the sorted state is not remembered correctly. Note that this is still occuring in RC-3

Reopening by last comment and setting NEW. pi

A bug so similar that I won't post a new report occurs to me for build 20021130 (that's the stable 1.2.1) on Win2k SP2: I have set the sorting to subject ascending. It normally works very well, but every now and then (every 4th or 5th time I download mail) it confuses the order of the newly downloaded mails. The mails I download usually have the same subject lines up to the 15th character or so.

I have a similar problem in the Search Messages window in e-mail on Mac OS X (10.2.6) with Mozilla build 20030624, running on an Apple iBook (500MHz). Do I need to enter this as a new bug, since this one (107280) is for Windows 2000? Symptoms are: 1) previous search done then sorted on date 2) do new search 3) Mozilla still highlights the Date column to show it as the sorting column, yet the sorting isn't in any sequence of dates - neither ascending nor descending 4) sort on any other column then sort again by date ==> all is OK now... until the next sort. Regards, Stephane.

I'm no longer seeing this behaviour since the 1.4 release (maybe since 1.4 RC 2/3, but I didn't stick with those because of other problems). Difficult for me to do an apples to apples comparison as my OS has now been changed to WinXP.

Well, I too have Mozilla 1.4 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624). So, maybe the Mac version still has the problem.

This bug still exist in 1.6a on Linux and is quite annoying because I never sort messages by Date and never Ascending. It could however be a wider problem with Mozilla saving preferred settings because I have sometimes seen other settings lost, eg. passwords for site-specific logins and where to put the included message that a reply is written for, ie. I always want the new text on top, but sometimes have found the setting to put the new text below.

I have same issue with TB 0.3 and 0.4a on Windows. There should maybe be a setting to set default sort order which applies on new accounts and would also apply if settings got lost.

andrew, see you seethis?

yes, the original report is WFM

=> WFM per andrew

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008060201 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre FWIW, this WFM too: I sort by Order Received but upwards in some folders and downwards in others, and Sm remembers it from one session to the next. If you want to REOPEN, include specifics of how to reproduce, actual results, expected results, (which seem to vary between comments above) as well as your UA string (similar to the one at top of this comment, and found next to "Build Identifier" at bottom of the about: page).