[Users] Date sorting issue

[wwp]

Hello Ivailo,


On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:27:07 +0200 Ivailo Andonov via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have the following issue and one of the claws-mail support guys
> directed me that is better to write here.
> Some e-mails have date looking like 'Fri, 08 Jul 16 13:34:23 +0300' and
> other that look like '16.03.21 г.(Tue) 12:06'. The first get always on
> top regardless they are from 2016 for example. So I can't see the new
> e-mails on the top of the list. They always appear somewhere down the
> list. Probably if I delete those it will be OK but they are many and I
> don't want to delete them. Is there a way to sort the mails properly by
> date and time?
> Snapshot in the attached picture.

Those '16.03.21 г.(Tue) 12:06'-like dates seem highly unconventional to
me, no way they can be considered as valid date and sorted accordingly.

If I were you, I'd pass a "fix date" action over such emails.

See the fix_date.sh tool at https://www.claws-mail.org/tools.php


Regards,

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wwp
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