Re: rmail: summary sort

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 10:21:27 +0200
> From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr
> 
>    > I tried to do this but, either the manual is wrong or me but the
>    > summary is just not sorted like it says.
> 
>    This works for me as the manual says.  What version of Emacs are you
>    using, and on what platform?
> 
> I am using GNU Emacs 23.0.51.2 on Slackware GNU/linux 12.0.
> 
>    Please describe _exactly_ what commands you invoked and in what order,
>    and also what you expected to see vs what you actually saw.
> 
> I did things in this precise order:
> 
> M-x rmail RET
> M-x rmail-sort-by-author RET
> M-x rmail-sort-by-date RET

Try the other way around: first by date, then by author.

> Apart this, I also need to know how to sort my mails according to
> my taste on rmail startup.

What is your taste?