#3649: Sorting by 'To: ' does not work right
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Reporter: grarpamp | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: 1.6
Component: mutt | Version: 1.5.21
Resolution: | Keywords: sorting
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Comment (by grarpamp):
Hi me. Yes I realize it may appear random to some, yet the email address
is in fact recognized as the base identity (not the 'real name/gecos'
field), at least among more technical users. And I see (and even use) with
some reasonable frequency, people using a generic address and alternating
their name field, whether on purpose, or as a byproduct of using that same
'body-from' address on differently configured systems. Therefore people
will lose track of those mails because they have no way to group them by
body-from (or body-to). Lots of 'Jane Smith's and odd MUA's (with their
variant quote and gt/lt address writing) out there :(
Anyway, since it seems easy, yes, I would support this enhancement.
A single muttrc option that changes the sense of both body-to and body-
from sorting would be fine.
And to me there seems to be a pretty good case for adding it to the UI so
users can toggle at runtime, such as 'o-t(o)' and 'o-t(O)' for the forward
case, with the reverse case as the usual 'O-'. ie: sort by all 'Jane
Smith's (today's default), or by address identity (enhanced).
Quote stripping... pretty printing in the main UI / msg display is fine of
course, but yeah, I think when in 'h'eader display mode, it should always
be raw/unaltered, as would be seen in any file editor.
I appear to not know how to make trac put that first list of 'to's one per
line, sorry about that.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3649#comment:2>
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