Mac Mail. Sort by sender, and stay on current email.

This seems to have changed with Yosemite.


Scenario: clearing out email. I find an email that's not really spam, something I once subscribed to, don't want to unsubscribe, but want to get rid of.


I click on the column heading 'From' (or else View/Sort By/From has the same effect).


The email are sorted, yes. BUT the email I was on isn't in view. Either I'm looking at lots of emails from 'zzzhappybedscompany' or 'aaaaardvarksRus'. Depending which way it went. The original email is still selected, but out of view. An up arrow will move to one above it, AND bring that into view, and then a down arrow will move back to the original selected email.


Thing is, clicking on the column head USED to order the emails, AND leave the selected one in view. Which was good if you wanted to delete everything from the same sender. It's just that bit more cumbersome now. And not very Appley.


Have I missed something? Has it really changed like what I just described?

OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 21, 2014 12:15 PM

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Dec 3, 2014 5:26 PM in response to OnSite I.T

OnSite I.T wrote:


No answers as yet - wonder if apple are listening as so many of my clients have this issue too

They rarely, if ever, do. Use the Feedback page to communicate with them. http://www.apple.com/feedback

This site is a user to user tech support forum.


In my experience, the selected email is not de-selected, so just arrow up or down and the focus will shift to the point you were at when you re-sorted.

Feb 7, 2015 11:45 AM in response to fredfromvt

The arrow up / arrow down definitely works as an alternative, but this is definitely a bug. However, what I've noticed as sometimes it sorts like it use to and sometimes it doesn't. So here is another alternative that works, that definitely indicates this issue is "bug" related.


Right before you change the sort from DATE to FROM (or something else); using your mouse, push the top of the message you're on slightly under the "Sort by..." banner, then sort. It will sort correctly from the point of that message and that message will still be visible.


Who knows... Maybe this was changed intentionally...

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