Chuck, great tip! I added the column and WALA! All messages now sort just as they should. I guess that's something i should have considered but being an Outlook user for many years it's easy to take so much for granted. Thanks Again! On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 21:29, Chuck Hays wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 17:38, Adam Maloney wrote: > > Sort by date is sorting by the date/time/timezone from the sender's > > mailclient. > > > > Pine (and probably others) had Sort by Arrival - that is, time based on > > when the message arrived in your mailbox. Sort by arrival is generally > > more accurate from your viewpoint. > > > > I've been using evolution for a few months now too, and that was one of > > the first things I've noticed. But I never cared enough to look at it > > much. I didn't see any way to do this at first glance, but I never > > looked very hard. I'd be interested if you found a setting somewhere... > > > > > > Right click on the column headings (such as from/subject/sent) and pick > "add column". You can then add received to your columns. This sorts by > arrival time like you can do in pine. > > Sent is like you said, when the sender "sent" it according to their > clock. I get messages with a date of Jan 1 1970, or 2017 sometimes, > they seem to come from poorly managed mail servers of some sort or > another. > > Hope that helps. > > -Chuck Hays > lists at chuckhays.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list