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From: Barry Margolin on 5 Jan 2010 15:03
Mail remembers which column you're sorting each mailbox by, and I could
have sworn it also remembered each mailbox's sort order. I sort most
mailboxes by date, and I had Sent and Trash set to show most recent
first, everything else oldest first. Now it's showing everything most
recent first. I can change it for an individual mailbox while I'm
viewing it, but if I switch to another mailbox and then go back, it will
be back to the wrong order.

Am I just imagining the old behavior, or has something changed recently?

I'm running Snow Leopard with all updates installed.

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Arlington, MA
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From: Paul Sture on 6 Jan 2010 14:21
In article <barmar-3271C9.15031905012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Barry Margolin <barmar(a)alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Mail remembers which column you're sorting each mailbox by, and I could
> have sworn it also remembered each mailbox's sort order. I sort most
> mailboxes by date, and I had Sent and Trash set to show most recent
> first, everything else oldest first. Now it's showing everything most
> recent first. I can change it for an individual mailbox while I'm
> viewing it, but if I switch to another mailbox and then go back, it will
> be back to the wrong order.
>
> Am I just imagining the old behavior, or has something changed recently?
>
> I'm running Snow Leopard with all updates installed.

Still on Leopard here, but one thing I've found is that if I click
somewhere inside the Mail window to bring it into focus, I occasionally
hit one of the column headers by mistake.

This is of course not unique to Mail, but Mail is where I've noticed it
most.

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Paul Sture
From: Barry Margolin on 6 Jan 2010 21:46
In article <paul.nospam-352840.20214606012010(a)pbook.sture.ch>,
Paul Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> wrote:

> In article <barmar-3271C9.15031905012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> Barry Margolin <barmar(a)alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Mail remembers which column you're sorting each mailbox by, and I could
> > have sworn it also remembered each mailbox's sort order. I sort most
> > mailboxes by date, and I had Sent and Trash set to show most recent
> > first, everything else oldest first. Now it's showing everything most
> > recent first. I can change it for an individual mailbox while I'm
> > viewing it, but if I switch to another mailbox and then go back, it will
> > be back to the wrong order.
> >
> > Am I just imagining the old behavior, or has something changed recently?
> >
> > I'm running Snow Leopard with all updates installed.
>
> Still on Leopard here, but one thing I've found is that if I click
> somewhere inside the Mail window to bring it into focus, I occasionally
> hit one of the column headers by mistake.
>
> This is of course not unique to Mail, but Mail is where I've noticed it
> most.

That's not going on here. I'm not leaving Mail, I'm just switching
between mailboxes within Mail.

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Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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From: Joseph Mostarda on 6 Jan 2010 23:23
On 2010-01-05 12:03:19 -0800, Barry Margolin said:

> Mail remembers which column you're sorting each mailbox by, and I could
> have sworn it also remembered each mailbox's sort order. I sort most
> mailboxes by date, and I had Sent and Trash set to show most recent
> first, everything else oldest first. Now it's showing everything most
> recent first. I can change it for an individual mailbox while I'm
> viewing it, but if I switch to another mailbox and then go back, it will
> be back to the wrong order.
>
> Am I just imagining the old behavior, or has something changed recently?
>
> I'm running Snow Leopard with all updates installed.

I think you might be imagining things here, because I believe that most
Mac OS X applications (Finder, Mail, etc.) do support custom sorting,
but it's usually used by all mailboxes, folders, etc. of that
application.

In Mail, I tend to sort everything by most recent, but, like you, I
prefer to keep a few mailboxes sorted otherwise. And yet, everytime I
go to those mailboxes, they are sorted by most recent.

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