I've been planning to do this for a while. It seems to me that the only time that more than two levels of sorting is useful is when the first level is threads. If anyone can give me a plausible scenario where they'd want more than three, or more than two unthreaded, I'll think about my approach. But for the moment the right thing to do seems to be to break threading out into its own config variable. So you can set
threads=forward threads=reverse or threads=off and then sort and sort_aux are what's used for secondary and tertiary sorting, or primary and secondary if threads=off. Make sense to people? -Daniel On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:40:48PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I generally want to sort my folders by thread/date, so I use this: > > folder-hook "." set sort=threads > folder-hook "." set sort_aux=date-received > > However, I have a folder called "debian-general", into which I have > procmail place everything from a few different Debian mailing lists. > In this folder, I'd like to keep some things together that aren't all > thread-related. For instance, it would be nice to put all of the mails > with subjects like: > > Debian Weekly News - December 19th, 2001 > Debian Weekly News - December 27th, 2001 > > together in the listing, but still group the rest of the mails normally by > thread. I tried: > > folder-hook "debian-general" set sort=threads > folder-hook "debian-general" set sort_aux=subject > > which is close, but then I get the weekly news emails out of date order > in the listing. > > I guess what I'm looking for is a way to sort by thread/subject/date > rather than just thread/subject. It doesn't look like I can use sort > and sort_aux to do this. Anyone have a suggestion for some other way to > accomplish this (other than just using procmail to put these things in a > different folder)? > > Thanks! > > KEN > > -- > Kenneth J. Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Personal Homepage: http://www.skyjammer.com/~pronovic/ > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little > temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 -- Daniel E. Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms." --Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"
