[MlMt] Build 5871: Setting date sorting parameters(^) and columns in, folders/sub-folders in the Left Bar

[Quinn Comendant]

Hi Henry,

I can confirm setting the column and sort for a top-level folder is 
inherited by all subfolders. I'm not sure it if helped that ran 
`defaults delete -app MailMate MmMailboxRelatedStates` first.

The only place this doesn't work is when viewing Layout → 
Correspondence, where Date Received is always sorted oldest first, no 
matter how that column is sorted anywhere else. This feels like a bug, 
if the above is meant to be the new standard behavior.

Quinn

On 22 Feb 2022, at 19:28, Henry Seiden wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I made two interesting discoveries that seems undocumented in the Help 
> Menus in this Build. It seems interesting that it isn’t mentioned, 
> but it seems to hold true in all tabs affecting settings of sub-tabs 
> within tabs of settings like columns adding or deleting them and 
> setting the ordering parameter (E.G., sorting early to later or 
> vice-versa). Also found a specific exception which you may also find 
> interesting.
>
> Case 1: You have or have created a folder like “Archive” (in my 
> case I renamed it to All Archive 2022 for reasons unimportant but 
> obvious). In that folder there are default columns or added columns. 
> Within that group there are several Account folders with messages:
> 1. You add a new column to this top level folder. The change is  
> reflected to all of the sub folders automagically. I can find no rules 
> or setting methods to affect this change in the default settings, it 
> just happens. The only exception I can find, is that the position of 
> the column at the end of the list of columns by default may be 
> respecified in the sub-columns or changed in any sub-folder to 
> whatever you want independently from the main column or other 
> sub-folders after the main folder changes. Kind of like a hierarchical 
> ordering setting.
> 2. Likewise a setting to the top level folder in terms of date 
> ordering - oldest to newest or vice-versa will affect all the 
> sub-folders, except where the subfolder was previously set 
> differently.
>
> Case 2: Changes made to top level folders in other terms, in the 
> View>Layout Menu MAY similarly affect sub-folders, but not the 
> reverse. If Benny used the same logic, it may explain so of the random 
> looking effects reported here.
>
> I tried out Case 1. above for my own folders and found it works 
> between all my top level and (each of) their sub-folders as described. 
> Maybe whomever is documenting the help menu can confirm and document 
> these changes along with the respective folder actions. Perhaps it 
> would explain anomalies reported here on sorting and columns. I leave 
> Case 2 to others to confirm.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Henry Seiden
>
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