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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rmail: summary sort
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:33:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud4x0vp4q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709020821.l828LRGO005418@localhost.localdomain> (message from Xavier Maillard on Sun, 2 Sep 2007 10:21:27 +0200)

> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 10:21:27 +0200
> From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr
> 
>    > I tried to do this but, either the manual is wrong or me but the
>    > summary is just not sorted like it says.
> 
>    This works for me as the manual says.  What version of Emacs are you
>    using, and on what platform?
> 
> I am using GNU Emacs 23.0.51.2 on Slackware GNU/linux 12.0.
> 
>    Please describe _exactly_ what commands you invoked and in what order,
>    and also what you expected to see vs what you actually saw.
> 
> I did things in this precise order:
> 
> M-x rmail RET
> M-x rmail-sort-by-author RET
> M-x rmail-sort-by-date RET

Try the other way around: first by date, then by author.

> Apart this, I also need to know how to sort my mails according to
> my taste on rmail startup.

What is your taste?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-02 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-30  5:25 rmail: summary sort Xavier Maillard
2007-08-30 20:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-02  8:21   ` Xavier Maillard
2007-09-02 19:33     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-09-03  1:00       ` Xavier Maillard

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