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Q: Yosemite has no sort by name in Mail

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 22, 2014 6:24 PM

by Space Ranger,Solvedanswer
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A:

Actually, it is still there.

Click on the Sort by Date and select From and you will be able to sort by Name.

Posted on Oct 27, 2014 11:06 AM

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  • by World3d,

    World3d World3d Nov 10, 2014 9:52 AM in response to Upper Dynamo
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    Nov 10, 2014 9:52 AM in response to Upper Dynamo

    Please pick up this discussion here: Yosemite has no sort by name in Mail App

    This discussion was rerailed by my accidentally clicking that it was solved.  Please post all comments at the discussion found at that link.

    Thanks

  • by arrambide,

    arrambide arrambide Nov 24, 2014 6:20 PM in response to World3d
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    Nov 24, 2014 6:20 PM in response to World3d

    I don't know if feel good or bad because I have the same issue and was trying to find an answer to solve it and was in touch with some blogs and the response is to use the "search" option which isn't acceptable and less because I have 5 mailboxes with more than 15,000 emails, so you may imagine the amount os results of one single name!!!!

     

    THIS IS REALLY A REASON WHY I MIGHT RETURN TO MAVERICKS!!,

     

    Im not so happy with Yosemite but THIS is a gold option for me..

     

    Where can we ask Apple to solve that???

  • by arrambide,

    arrambide arrambide Nov 30, 2014 11:59 AM in response to arrambide
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    Nov 30, 2014 11:59 AM in response to arrambide

    Anyone have a solution?

  • by Michael Paine,

    Michael Paine Michael Paine Dec 2, 2014 7:24 PM in response to arrambide
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    Dec 2, 2014 7:24 PM in response to arrambide

    There is no solution. It is an annoying bug with Yosemite (in my book it is a bug if a previous useful functionality no longer works - a kinder description is "oversight")

    Give feedback to Apple (.../feedback/macosx.html)

     

    See also

    Mac Mail re-sort loses selected eMail

  • by World3d,

    World3d World3d Dec 3, 2014 3:15 PM in response to Michael Paine
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    Dec 3, 2014 3:15 PM in response to Michael Paine

    PLEASE people... see the very first top post in this page of this thread.

    Please pick up this discussion here: Yosemite has no sort by name in Mail App

    Having this discussion over different threads lessens the apparent reaction to the issue.  I'd like Apple to hear it and although I suspect they're completely deaf (nobody from Apple will even admit respond to if they consider this an issue) the best chance is for the thread to get noticed.  Please follow the link above and PLEASE send feedback!

    Thanks

  • by Michele from CT,

    Michele from CT Michele from CT Feb 10, 2015 4:56 PM in response to bodyxs
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    Feb 10, 2015 4:56 PM in response to bodyxs

    O.k. I just sent in feedback to Apple begging for a fix.  I waited forever to upgrade to Yosemite b/c I worry about those initial annoying bugs.  Thought by now I was safe and then this!  I am totally annoyed by it.  I would use that sort option probably 10x a day to quickly locate an email from someone I was recently talking to and I wanted to see the email train.  I do NOT want to have to use the looking glass, type in their name, select it and hope that I can find what I need.  It is no where near as efficient.  If you have this problem PLEASE go to Apple directly and send it in as a bug.  I don't think they will know otherwise.  We need more, more, more people to complain. 

  • by GavStrNZ,

    GavStrNZ GavStrNZ Apr 13, 2015 12:55 PM in response to Michele from CT
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    Apr 13, 2015 12:55 PM in response to Michele from CT

    Should continue this at Yosemite has no sort by name in Mail App

    But for anyone looking for a simple solution. If you click 'From' column it will then sort all by alphabetic order, then up arrow (or down) you will arrive at your message. It works but it is a bug I think. Please fix Apple!

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