OE doesn't officially support more than the primary sort field.

I find that when I sort on From, they are then in date order within
From. But that may just be luck. I normally sort on the date, or
perhaps its because that's the order the messages were added to the
folder. Many have reported similar experiences while some have fond
that it doesn't sort on the date with From.

In View, Current View, make sure that you have Not selected Group
messages by conversion for the mail folder. For mail folders that
groups by Subject and will confuse the sort order you are attempting.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"D. W. K." wrote in message
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Does anyone out there know how OE6 sorts stored mail after the first
selection? In other words, I have sent many dozens of email messages
to particular individuals, such as my engineer, over a long period of
time. If I want to find a particular message from the past I can sort
by the "To" column then look for his name. The problem is that there
are still so many messages to him that it takes a very long time to
find any particular one because within the group by each name they all
appear to be in random order! Is there a way to sort by a second level
such as name then within that date?

Thanks,

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DWK
Simi Valley, CA
USA