Subject: sub ordering of index

From: Alex Sirota <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 16:44:33 -0400 (EDT)

Is there a way to select a suborder by which he main index is sorted by. I
would like to sort first by the from field but then by the date field in
ascending order. Can this be implemented?

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From: [email-masked] (Chris Wooff)
Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 14:21:05 +0100

> ascending order. Can this be implemented?
End of insertion from Alex Sirota
I believe that only one sort field is permitted.  However, I'd certainly support
the provision of more than one sort field.  When I have a lot of mail to read I
like to sort my mail on Subject (primary) and Date (secondary).  That way mail on
the same subject is grouped together in chronological ordering.  I reckon it
saves me vast amounts of time because I can more quickly skip text which
occurred in a  previous item.

Chris

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From: Laurence Lundblade <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 10:48:30 -0700 (PDT)

I think this is a pretty good idea, probably even just for the regular 
sort by subject.  It's almost net news style threading.  All you have to 
do further is display only one line in the index for each subject. 

I think the best thing to do group the subjects together, and then sort 
the groups based on the most recent message in each group.  Opinions?

LL