On 1/19/2010 6:40 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > Mark Hansen wrote: >> On 1/11/2010 8:10 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>> Arne wrote: >>> >>>> Mark Hansen wrote: >>>>> On 1/11/2010 3:41 AM, Arne wrote: >>>>>> I would like to know what the difference is between "Sort by: Date" >>>>>> and "Sort by: Received"? >>>>> Do you mean "Sort by: Order Received"? That is the date/time the message >>>>> showed up on your doorstep, regardless of the date shown in the Date >>>>> header of the message. These can be different. >>>> No, I don't mean "Sort by: Order Received". As I wrote, I can see what >>>> happen with that sort order. But I can't see what happen with the >>>> "plain" Received sorting that is different from sorting by Date. >>> OK, here's a theory: >>> >>> If you look at a message header, you'll see that it contains Date: and >>> Received: fields. The Date: field is the date attached by the sending >>> computer, which may or may not be accurate. The Received: fields are >>> attached by the various servers that handle the message en route. >>> >>> So if you sort by Date:, you're sorting by when the sender's computer >>> thought it sent it, and if you sort by Received:, you're sorting by when >>> one of the mail servers thought it got it. Could be as much as several >>> days apart. >>> >> >> How do you sort by "Received". I don't have that option. In my SeaMonkey, >> I have no such option. I do have Sort by "Order Received". Is that what >> you're talking about. I've found that is set to the time the message is >> placed in the mail folder. >> >> For example, if I get three messages: A, B and C - in that order, then >> move them into another mail folder in this order: First B, then A, then C, >> and the other mail folder is set to display in the Order Received, the >> messages are display in this order: B, A, C. >> >> As far as I can see, it's not using the dates in the received headers at >> all. >> >> Perhaps this changed for SM 2.x. This is how it's always worked for me >> in SeaMonkey 1.1.X (and I'm pretty sure earlier Mozilla products as >> well). > > Well, I'm in the same boat as you -- my SM 1.1.16 only offers "Order > received," and I have no idea how it would calculate that, since the > message header doesn't contain that info. Does SM somehow mark each > message with a date/time stamp of its own???
Based on my experience (described above) it keeps track of the date/time the message was placed into the mail folder. This is the order the message was received by the mail folder. > > I can sort by the sender's date, of course, that's trivial. > > My fallback theory is that some programmer devised a bad name for > something, and he probably means something else. > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
