Sorting of messages by label is reversed in build 20020122, in opposite to some 1-2 week older build. Now sorting works in unlogical way where new messages are on top of the list and labeled messages are on bottom of the list. (message list sorted by label UP). So I either see new incoming messages when cursor is on top, or labeled important messages when cursor is on bottom of the list.

I believe you're describing the intended sort --> see bug 115689. By New messages, you mean new and unlabeled messages, right? Or are you assigning label via filter to new messages?

I have read these comments as well as bug 115689, and there is definitely something broken with the sorting (currently using 2002021203). The problem I am seeing is that when the labeled messages appear at the top, the newest/unread messages appear at the bottom, and vice versa. I believe this is what the first poster was pointing out; the order Labeled then Unlabeled is correct, but the sorting by date and/or status is wrong in that it puts the labeled messages at one end and the newest and unread messages at the other. For example: Message 1 02/10/2002 (Labeled) Message 2 02/11/2002 (unlabeled/read) Message 3 02/12/2002 (unlabeled/read) Message 4 02/14/2002 (Unread) This does not make any rational sense. What we *should* be seeing is: Message 1 02/10/2002 (Labeled) Message 4 02/14/2002 (Unread) Message 3 02/12/2002 (unlabeled/read) Message 2 02/11/2002 (unlabeled/read) Where you have labeled messages at the top, then unread, then sort from most recent to oldest if descending, or oldest, unread, labeled if ascending. This is extremely irritating. -Chance

Nearly two months later, this bug is still UNCONFIRMED, with no severity, priority, or target milestone even set for it yet... is there anybody out there?

I don't believe there was any intended secondary sort except by date within label type. Sort by label then other status is what you're wanting, correct? A mix of sorting on label and status?

Or rather a mix of sort on label and read/unread, not necessarily including status(replied,forwarded, etc.).

confirming as enhancement request

Yes, I suppose you could think of it as a "secondary sort"... what I am getting at here is illustrated in (cringe) Outlook Express: if you sort messages by, say, "flagged", you will get the flagged messages at the top, in ascending order (newest to oldest). Then, the rest of your mail will also be in ascending order, by date, rather than in reverse-sorted, as Mozilla currently does. 1. Labeled Messages 2. Newest non-labeled messages 3. Oldest non-labeled messages I think this should be considered more substantial than an "enhancement request", however, as it is not the behavior that the typical user (who, odds are, has been using Outlook) will expect. It is counter-intuitive that the labeled messages would appear at the top and then the remainder of the messages would be reverse-sorted such that unread/most recent messages appear at the other end. It can't be that hard to add a secondary sort. And it would win alot of people over to Mozilla Mail. Little things like this are what makes all the difference. -Chance

This is not just an enchancment request, because the way it does it currently, sorting by label then date, its sorting by date in the wrong order. (labeled are grouped next to oldest messages instead of newest). So thats definatly a bug, the ability to set secondary, trinary etc sorts is what yall seem to want but not what the original bug was about. File secondary bug??

I would be ecstatic if they would just address the ass-backwards sort by date problem that this was originally about... a secondary sort implementation would be great, but the main problem is the reversed read/unread which makes sorting by label useless. I agree that this problem is more than an "enhancement request".

No, don't file another bug. This one stands.

OS = "other"? Shouldn't that be "All"? Version="other"? Anyone care to offer a wild guess as to when, or if, this bug will be fixed? (sound of crickets in the distance) Is there anybody out there? -Chance

It is not slated for a fix milestone. Maybe Sean (assignee) can comment on his take on the bug, but as it stands now it is not in the fix list for the next release.

platforms should be all because this affects labels on all platforms. This might be as simple as sorting the labels in a reverse manner than how they are being done right now. I'll have to take a look at the sort routine's filtering code that filters out the labels to be sorted in a special way. adding nsbeta1 to see what adt people think about this bug.

Discussed in mail news bug meeting. Decided to minus this bug.

"Decided to minus this bug." What does that mean? Does the Target Milestone being set to mozilla1.2alpha mean that it is going to be a long, long time before this is fixed?

*** Bug 129202 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Is this going to be addressed? Sorry, this sorting thing is a pet peeve...

This bug is very similar to bug 238631. As I posted there: An Ascending sort by Unread puts the Unread messages at the bottom, and an Ascending sort by Date puts the newest (presumably most important) messages at the bottom. Therefore, Ascending sort by Label should put the Important messages at the bottom, and the unlabelled at the top -- reversing the current sort order. Note that the secondary sort criterion is not date, but "Order Received" which often but not always corresponds to date. This bug could be mitigated by implementing multi-criterion sort (bug 57898).

With the replacement of Labels by Tags, we now have untagged messages placed at the bottom of the sort (top of the pane in an Ascending sort, bottom of the pane in a Descending sort), so the unique part of this bug is addressed. It seems, tho, that sorting by tag puts them in alphabetical order of the tags, rather than order of importance; that's a different issue. Multi-criterion sort is bug 57898 (bug 254128 for Thunderbird).