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Q: Yosemite has no sort by name in Mail App

Yosemite has what I would say is a bug- it is certainly at least a dropped feature.

I'm sure that most people view mail sorted by date as do I.  But sometimes I want to view all mail from a particular sender.  All previous versions of mail allowed you to simply click on any mail in the inbox and then simply click the "sort by name" tab at the top to see all letters sorted by name, beginning with the selected email.  Now in Yosemite, instead of beginning with the selected email, it instead starts at "A" or "Z" ignoring the selected email.  I would suggest that this is helpful to exactly nobody.  I'm hoping this is just a bug/oversight that will be quickly fixed.  "Sort by name" is king of important to those of who are heavy users.

And yes, I understand that I can do a search.  But this brings up every email that even mentions the sender and searching and then sorting is super cumbersome compared to the one click method that has seemingly been abandoned.  Hoping there's a fix in sight!

Posted on Oct 28, 2014 2:24 PM

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  • by stopmusic,

    stopmusic stopmusic Oct 28, 2014 5:17 PM in response to World3d
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    Oct 28, 2014 5:17 PM in response to World3d

    Yes i am having the same issue.  Old mail would keep your highlighted selection in view after sorting as a starting point.  I can't find anything now and have way too many emails to scroll.   Same issue on saved emails.  This is true with from, subject, whatever.  "Search" function, same issue.  search for something, then try to sort by subject, date or whatever, and the same result.  This seems like a basic function and I have used it from the beginning.  Otherwise, why even use these to sort?

    Someone please help!!!

  • by DKVikram,

    DKVikram DKVikram Oct 29, 2014 7:08 AM in response to World3d
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    Oct 29, 2014 7:08 AM in response to World3d

    I have the same problem. Earlier clicking on sort would stick to the selected message but now the selected message has to be searched by scrolling. This is very irritating.

  • by ADub128,

    ADub128 ADub128 Oct 30, 2014 10:25 AM in response to World3d
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    Oct 30, 2014 10:25 AM in response to World3d

    Yes, I have the same problem too. In the past, I would highlight an email and then click the "From" header to get all the emails from a particular sender. In Mountain Lion (and earlier), the list would stay "anchored" at the highlighted email. The same problem happens when I click on the "Subject" header to sort things. Everything is sorted by Subject, but the highlighted email is buried somewhere and I have to search for it.

     

    Every new Mac OS brings some weird issue to Mail. I hope this gets fixed soon ... there are workarounds, but it really messes up my workflow!

  • by hisaaki,

    hisaaki hisaaki Oct 31, 2014 6:30 AM in response to ADub128
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    Oct 31, 2014 6:30 AM in response to ADub128

    I had the same problem, and asked to this Support Community, Japanese version.

     

    Someone suggested me the following solution.  (supposing you are using classic layout)

    1. sort the mails  (then the highlighted selected one will go somewhere)

    2. click the main part of the selected mail

    3. press Command + upper (lower) cursor button of the keyboard

    Then the previous (next) mail will appear in the sorted list.

     

    Once if you do the above procedure, then the highlighted mail remains in the sorted list as before.

    However, if you do sort by date again, then this feature is missed.

     

    I thinks this is a bug.

  • by LATrapp,

    LATrapp LATrapp Nov 1, 2014 8:48 AM in response to hisaaki
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    Nov 1, 2014 8:48 AM in response to hisaaki

    Same issue here. Incredibly annoying. Hope it's a bug as I can't understand how it would be a feature that adds any usability.

     

    Another thread here:

     

    Yosemite Mail Sorting Function Missing

  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Nov 1, 2014 9:05 AM in response to World3d
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    Nov 1, 2014 9:05 AM in response to World3d

    Normally you click the column that you want to sort !!

    so if you want to sort on Name, click the name column, click it again to reverse the sort order.

  • by BPC,

    BPC BPC Nov 1, 2014 9:25 AM in response to World3d
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    Nov 1, 2014 9:25 AM in response to World3d

    It has a sort by From. Couldn't you use this the same as sort by Name?

  • by LATrapp,

    LATrapp LATrapp Nov 1, 2014 9:37 AM in response to BPC
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    Nov 1, 2014 9:37 AM in response to BPC

    LexSchellings and BPC-

     

    It's the way it's handled in Yosemite that's different.

     

    Let's say you wanted to see all of your emails from 'JoeBlow'. You used to be able to click and highlight an email from him, then click the From tab or sort by Sender and it would immediately line up all of his emails.

     

    Now, when you Sort it lines up your emails starting from A -or- Z. At the very bottom or top of your 10,000 emails. You THEN have to scroll to J to find JoeBlow's emails...

  • by World3d,

    World3d World3d Nov 1, 2014 9:47 AM in response to LATrapp
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    Nov 1, 2014 9:47 AM in response to LATrapp

    Exactly.  It no longer respects your selected name as the starting point.  Starting at A or Z is useful if you have fewer than about 100 emails.  Before suggesting to just click on "from" to sort by name, please make sure you understand this issue and have tried it yourself.

    I'm assuming it must be a bug because, why not start with what you've selected- what would be the negative of doing so?  This is how it has been for the history of the app until Yosemite and I see only harm and no benefit in the change.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Nov 1, 2014 1:27 PM in response to World3d
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    Nov 1, 2014 1:27 PM in response to World3d

    Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner

     

     

    Mail/Provide Mail Feedback

  • by dirtychai,

    dirtychai dirtychai Nov 1, 2014 10:06 PM in response to World3d
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    Nov 1, 2014 10:06 PM in response to World3d

    I called Apple and was told that this is not a bug, that they no longer have this feature. Unbelievable. I use this feature all day long. I don't understand why they would remove such a simple and functional feature. I really hope they'll revisit this or I won't be using mac Mail anymore.

  • by stopmusic,

    stopmusic stopmusic Nov 2, 2014 5:39 PM in response to hisaaki
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    Nov 2, 2014 5:39 PM in response to hisaaki

    I see what you mean.  Not ideal. but better than scrolling.  Thanks!

  • by stopmusic,

    stopmusic stopmusic Nov 2, 2014 5:41 PM in response to World3d
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    Nov 2, 2014 5:41 PM in response to World3d

    Thanks everyone for tuning in.  as a few people have mentioned, if we all email support it might help the situation.  Also, please see hisaaski's post using command and up/down arrows.  this certainly helps.

  • by dirtychai,

    dirtychai dirtychai Nov 2, 2014 6:06 PM in response to stopmusic
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    Nov 2, 2014 6:06 PM in response to stopmusic

    I don't understand these instructions. How can I highlight a part of the message without just having to go and find it? What's the point, once I've scrolled around to find it?

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