I think you nailed it here with the "...Not selected Group messages by
conversion for the mail folder." except for some little flaws. It only seems
to work within the Inbox and its subfolders but does not seem to work in the
Sent mail folder and its subfolders. Even when it seems at first to be right
for some names other names seem to have their dates all over the place!
Unchecking the option for grouping messages does, however, now screw up the
way I like Help Forum messages grouped! I guess there is no winning with
Microsoft! OE (Windows?) still needs a lot of work. The techies should hire
some common sense people off the street to sit next to them when they
develop this stuff! ) Anyway, thanks a lot for the help! -DWK )


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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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 found 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