Re: TB - Sort add-on
On 07/05/2015 12:27 PM, g wrote:
On 07/05/15 12:22, jd1008 wrote:
> On 07/04/2015 10:02 PM, g wrote:
>> On 07/04/15 22:10, jd1008 wrote:
>>> Looked for an add-on that will sort a folder by date (not for display
>>> purposes)
>>> but to physically re-organize a floder's messages so that they are
>>> sorted from oldest
>>> to most recent.
>>>
>>> Any info on that?
>> .
>> that ability is already available with;
>>
>> View > Sort by > { personal selections }
>>
>>
> Cameron reiterated that it is only a visual sort, and does
> not modify the inbox contents by the sort.
.
agreed. read my post;
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 02:13:41 -0500
several years ago, i had similar need as you and found that to get a
physical chronological sort order, it must be done manually using
drag and drop.
i did verified that thunderbird devs did not write their move or copy
functions to move or copy by sort order.
to make drag and drop easier, what i ended up doing was to use color
tagging to show sequential of the emails.
to explain:
1- the emails in sort folder were not tagged.
2- emails in each folder that i copied into sort folder were tagged
with a unique color.
3- sort folder was set to sort by date giving obvious grouping by
the grouping of color.
4- emails that were not grouped were moved individually to physical
sort folder.
5- emails that were grouped by color were moved by group to physical
sort folder.
6- after physical sort folder was completed, i deleted original folders
that i copied from.
a tedious process, but i did end up with emails in a true physical
chronological order.
if you think about what all would be required to create an add-on that
would do such a sort, you would probably agree that it would be a task
that near all of the add-on devs are unable to reason how to do such.
to my thinking, it would be rather involved writing such a routine in
c/c++ or any other language.
if i were more versed with c/c++, i would write it to first make a scan
of 'date and time' and 'message id' of emails, then sort that info to
chronological order.
next would be to use that order to individually move/copy the emails to
a sorted file.
sounds simple, but it is involved.
Too tedious 'cause there are over 100K emails :)