On 8/8/2023 13:57:42, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-08-08 15:48, joe a wrote:
On 8/7/2023 2:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-08-07 16:29, joe a wrote:
Anyone here using Thunderbird/Dovecote to sort Trash folder by deleted date?
I was astonished that does not seem to be the default. Do not find the option to add "Date deleted".
Asked on Mozilla/TB Support, which tells me that option is there, under Settings, View, Sort by. also on dovecote, which has not responded at all.
You certainly can sort "written" date. Not by deleted date, that is not recorded. You could try by "arrival", which is actually "unsorted". Huh, no, TB can't not sort.
Sort by written date, just click on the column header labeled "date".
Oh, you can select what columns to display, and one is "order received". If you tick on that column, it should be the same as "date of delete". Alternatively, you could try the column "received".
On further, minimal, revisit/thought, it would seem to be an IMAP thing. a "Date Deleted" field (?) would need to be added/flagged/noted. Casual sniffing has not shown such exists. At least garnered little interest.
Yes, it would need Thunderbird writing one extra header on the message itself with the timestamp of deletion. It is certainly possibly to add such a feature, AFAIK, if it has enough traction, but I'm not a dev. Only commenting by what I know of the format.
Or, Thunderbird could write the information in the separate index file it keeps. I don't know how possible is this.
Tried "Order Received" early on. It is only what appears to be an ascending numeric value, indicating "arrival order".
Yes.
You leave me puzzled with "date of delete". That is exactly what I am looking for and have not found. As mentioned earlier "Date" and "Received" show identical values, which are not, "Date Deleted", but more like "When Received" (more or less).
I remain curious why there should be two available values, presumably having different meanings, yet, are displayed as identical values. Not knowing Dovecot and or IMAP beyond the "OK, got it working" level, unsure of why that might be, but suspect a "bug".
The Date of the Date column corresponds to the Date at time of writing the final copy of the email. It is up to the software that wrote the software.
For example, your OP has:
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 10:29:28 -0400
Now, the "received" date I don't know for sure which it is. I guess it is the dat of the "last" received header, so it depends on the receiver. In that same message, it is:
Received: from dovector04.e.movistar.es ([217.116.1.118]) by lda06.e.movistar.es (Dovecot) with LMTP id ...5w for <...@telefonica.net>; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:29:55 +0200
You can see there is a difference of seconds.
But it could be some other "received" header.
I changed the time format to show HH:mm:ss and both columns still show the same value. Thunderbird support has not been entirely helpful. Not sure if this warrants raising a bug report or not. I've rarely done that and it is always a "needs retraining" ordeal.