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.
The "Order Received", while a simple numeric sequence, is not a "system flag/value, it is the order it arrived (was "Received") in a given folder. That is, it appears to be created anew each time it arrives in any given folder, indicating the order it was received in that folder. So, while it is not the time/date stamp I was determined to find, it can serve.