"From" sort bug?
 

When I click on the message list "From" column header, I get the list sorted not by From value but by email address. Is this a known bug?

Anyone know a workaround? It is a pain not to be able to see the list ordered by From name.

And is a fix due?

Thanks.

4 months later.... please?

Unfortunately it's part of the IMAP sort specification.

http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/02n...xt-sort-10.txt

So it's not likely to change in a hurry sorry :(

Rob

"an experimental server-based sorting extension to the IMAP4rev1 protocol, as implemented by the University of Washington's IMAP toolkit" , you mean?

That sounds like a very poor excuse for a failing that no other client IME exihibits.

Consider the effect of sorting a load of messages from "support@" different domains - nonsense, basically.

But if Fastmail really has to sort like this, could it at least /display/ the value it is sorting on? Then the user might stand some chance of manually decoding the mess.

The imap sort extension isn't really that experimental anymore. I think this is the latest.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/...xt-sort-18.txt

You're right, better display would be good.

Rob

Yes, -18 is the latest.

http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-ietf-imapext-sort/

(The part after idref/ can be an RFC identifier, too: http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/rfc3501/)