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Hello,

I'm having a problem with my inbox receiving messages and sorting them
by the sender's name instead of the way they are received. I know this
sounds like an easy thing to correct, but I have gone to ViewSort By
and set the settings so that the messages would arrive as received by
date, in order of sent, and also in descending order, so that the
latest message would be on top of list. As many times as I repeat this
action, it doesn't stick, the messages are still being received and
catagorized by the name of the sender whereever that person's name is
on the list.. This makes me overlook new messages because I don't see
them. Is there something I can do to correct this other than the usual
settings, and what exactly causes this problem to keep re-occurring?
Could it be anything to do with saving too many messages in the inbox
so that I can refer to them again?

Thank you for any help you can offer,
Sanandra