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Re: RFE - sort by from *address*



On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 06:07:35PM -0500, Nathan Dushman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:22:32PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:

> > So, if there isn't a way to do this currently, I was wondering if people
> > thought this would be a useful feature (either as a different sort key,
> > or as an on/off option for various operations that sort by "from"). This
> > seems more logical, since generally you're looking for emails from a
> > particular person to be grouped together.
> 
> Hey look!  Only a month later :) a patch that will force sorting by email
> address.  I've added a new option, ignore_realname, that, when set, causes
> mutt to ignore any realname when sorting by From or To.  A side effect is
> that when you sort by From or To and set this option, you'll see email
> addresses (and not real names) in the index.  
> 
> This patch doesn't affect the behavior of reverse_alias - if reverse_alias
> is set, mutt will still sort by alias when available.  Previously in this
> thread someone was saying it doesn't work, but I think it's his specific
> configuration, as clearly I'm not the only one for whom reverse_alias
> affects sorting - wishlist #1576 (mentioned in this thread) shows it works.

Hmm ... well, thanks ;-)

 - Dave

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