RE: 5/24 builds on win_nt 4.0, win98(1999-05-24-08 m6), and Linux (1999-05-24-08 m6) Steps: 1. Open Messenger from the Task menu 2. Sort by View|Sort or by clicking on the Sender column, sort sorts by the From field Expected result: should be sorted by the text field so that users can visually see the sort effect. Have not tested Mac yet.

I'm taking this.

This bug report is broken out from bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4731 per putterman's request. Scott - is this yours then?

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Setting to M8. David, this is one we talked about a while ago. Basically, I'm getting the author collation key, but I'm displaying the sender's name using the RFC822 parser. So it get's sorted by the from header which looks strange when the sender's name is what's being displayed. We talked about having the the parsing done in the DB code. Then we could have the collation key based on the sender's name. Scott

Moving to M9.

I think I have to do something here.

I'm not sure I'm going to get to this before m10

I think this is fixed in nsMsgDatabase.cpp, by getting the sender from mime, and then generating the collation key. I think libmime also deals with mime decoding, so I don't do that anymore.

Linux (1999-08-10-08 M9) Win32 (1999-08-10-09 M9) and Mac (1999-08-10-09 M9) The problem no longer exists.