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Additional Feature Request - Web Client Mail Sort Order Options
At the moment, the web client appears to allow you to sort by subject or date. Was hoping that this feature might be extended to allow to sort by 'From' and 'Size' columns, particularly 'from'.
This seems an odd thing not to have been included, to be able to group the mails you've received by who they're from ? Was this avoided done for a reason ?
Any feedback appreciated.
Generally great great product. Thanks to everyone who has put so much time and effort into it.
You should be able to sort by sender/recipient inside a convo, just not in the main folder.
Alternatively you could switch to message view and sort by those, but note: Bug 6830 - sorting Sent folder by To column sorts wrong.
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Sorting on "To" is very resource expensive. More expensive than sorting on size. The general gist is that anything we want to sort on has to (a) have its own column in the DB and (b) have its own sortable field in Lucene. "To" has neither (at least I'm pretty sure the Lucene field is not sortable), so we'd have to reanalyze the entire mailbox and rewrite every row of the DB to contain the "To" data.
Will look forward to introduction of that "sort on every column" feature. I understand the resource constraints to a degree but can't help feeling it's an important one.
A couple of other features that strike me about the web client in a similar way ... no abiiity to apply newly created filters retrospectively to the inbox ... i.e. create a filter/rule to move all the messages building up from a bulliten board, for example, to a new folder.
Also, an ability to go direct to a message number rather than having to use the forward/back arrows to hunt through potentially many pages of max 100 messages per page.
Just a couple of thoughts anyway.
Thanks again for the welcome and quick response, and thanks to everyone involved in a great and very successful project !
I'm obviously going to have to spend more time searching through the bug reports. Can I take it from this that Zimbra is officially using the bug reporting system for feature enhancement requests as well ?
I shall keep a watch on those 'bug' reports, as they seem important and (from a user interface perspective) fairly basic features to include.
Thanks to you and to all the Zimbra team for your/their hard work.
Hi,
just let me also first express my enthousiasm about the product.
Concerning the sorting feature: I also would need it a lot. But my personal experience is, that a general "sort on every column" is not really necessary. Sort on size is not really necessary. Perhaps folks can concentrate on sorting on "From" column feature.
i am running several Zimbra's, several of them are Networkedtion's the biggest with 125 User's.
what is the order bug's and/or Feature Request's are get worked out?
a had last time a big conflict cause this missing feature, which was discovered after rollout
(and several other point's with relation's, i will describe in a separete thread)
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Additional Feature Request - Web Client Mail Sort Order Options 
(The way we work it's far better for individual one's to be opened like the above or 
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