Default mail sorting?
Macs R We <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Jul 2021 20:05:37 -0700
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OK, here's a puzzling one.
One of my clients (hardly a power user) complained to me recently that a =
mail notification shows up, then she goes to her mailbox, and it just =
isn't there. It didn't take me long to discover that her confusion was =
arising from A) her keeping mail in her inbox all the way back to 2008, =
and B) her mailbox display being sorted by sender name instead of date =
received. So I changed her mailbox sort =E2=80=94 simple fix.
Then she asked me to create a couple mailboxes to store mail of =
different types. Some were physical mailboxes on iCloud (she wanted to =
move that mail by hand and have it available on all her devices), some =
were smart mailboxes on that Mac (she wanted to locate all mail from a =
certain person). In the process of creating all these mailboxes, I =
discovered that every single one of them defaulted to sorting by sender =
name!
Now, I've never seen this before. I've created hundreds of mailboxes for =
myself and others, and in all cases they started out sorted by date =
received. It never even occurred to me that Mail would default to any =
other way. Yet this was 100% consistent.
So my first thought was, there must be some Preference set wonky. Yet I =
couldn't find a preference in Mail that had anythig to do with the =
default sorting of mailboxes.
Anybody know where this skeleton is hidden?
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Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support
in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas.
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here's a puzzling one.<div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">One of my clients (hardly a power user) complained to me =
recently that a mail notification shows up, then she goes to her =
mailbox, and it just isn't there. It didn't take me long to discover =
that her confusion was arising from A) her keeping mail in her inbox all =
the way back to 2008, and B) her mailbox display being sorted by sender =
name instead of date received. So I changed her mailbox sort =E2=80=94 =
simple fix.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">Then=
she asked me to create a couple mailboxes to store mail of different =
types. Some were physical mailboxes on iCloud (she wanted to move that =
mail by hand and have it available on all her devices), some were smart =
mailboxes on that Mac (she wanted to locate all mail from a certain =
person). In the process of creating all these mailboxes, I discovered =
that <i class=3D"">every single one of them</i> defaulted to sorting by =
sender name!</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">Now, I've never seen this before. I've created hundreds of =
mailboxes for myself and others, and in all cases they started out =
sorted by date received. It never even occurred to me that Mail would =
default to any other way. Yet this was 100% consistent.</div><div =
class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">So my first thought was, =
there must be some Preference set wonky. Yet I couldn't find a =
preference in Mail that had anythig to do with the default sorting of =
mailboxes.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">Anybody know where this skeleton is hidden?</div><br =
class=3D""><div class=3D"">
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text-decoration: none;">-- <br class=3D""> Macs R We -- =
Personal Macintosh Service and Support<br class=3D""> =
in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas.<br =
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