TB - Sort add-on

[Cameron Simpson]

On 05Jul2015 11:21, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Remember to take a backup first! (Just copy your whole TB folder
>>directory in case of accidents.)
>>
>>Finally, _why_ do you want the TB folder in date order, physically? 
>>What is the objective here?
>
>Reason is that I used to have accounts from many other email servers
>where I had different user names too. [...]
>When I finally settled on my current gmail account, I decided to cat
>all Inbox folders into one Inbox folder, [...]
>I want the physical layout to be by date so that if and when I decide
>to use a CLI mail client which does not sort messages by date, everything will 
>be in chronological order.

Aha.

I use a CLI mail client: mutt. And it will sort by date out of the box (or by 
many other criteria at your whim).

I recommend choosing a superior CLI mail client when you need to do that.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less. - www.mutt.org