Yosemite has no sort by name in Mail App

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!!!

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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

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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.

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

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.

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?

select the message as usual and click your sort option, whether it be from, subject, etc. as discussed, your message goes out of view. now press and hold the command button, then click the up or down arrow. your sort location should be restored. let me know if that works.