[MlMt] Sorting the browser window

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Sat Mar 14 16:29:08 EDT 2020


On 13 Mar 2020, at 11:15, Dave C wrote:

> My default criteria for sorting the Inbox is by date/time received.
>
> Occasionally I want to search for an attachment—that I can’t 
> remember the exact details of (name, sender, etc.). So I click on the 
> Attachments column head and it sorts all messages with attachment to 
> the top of the list.
>
> But the dates of these messages with attachments are random; they are 
> not sorted in chronological order, which seems most useful.
>
> Shouldn’t the sub-criteria always be by date received? Benny, can 
> you make this so?
>
Secondary sort keys would be nice. For this specific problem, though, 
what
I do is a search for "Attachment count" "is not" "0". That gives me all 
of
the message with attachments, sorted by whatever I want.


         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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