>>> "TH" == Tassilo Horn writes: > Uwe Brauer writes: >>> and they are not ordered monotonically. So which criterion do you >>> actually want to use for sorting. >> >> Well if the date and time is too messy, I'd say I would like to sort by >> number, but I want it montonically indepent whether threading is on or off > I think, thus should be > (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number) > gnus-article-sort-functions '(gnus-article-sort-by-number)) This was my first setting. > then. >> But it should be displayed as >> >> 57606 [ Uwe Braue] Uwe Brauer [[CV] (was: [Amnu 19]) ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:30:41 +0200 8.8k 6 >> 57609 [ +henar de ] Uwe Brauer [ ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 09:35:45 +0000 10k 13 >> 57585 [ tex-d-l-r] tex-d-l@li [tex-d-l Nachrichtenkompil] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:00:07 +0200 13k 165 >> 57593 [ users ] oub@mat.uc [Subject: Digest of users@] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 08:00:27 +0000 (UTC) 38k 11 >> 57621 [ Uwe Braue] Uwe Brauer [[stuff] (was: [CV]) ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:04:34 +0200 9.4k 16 >> >> That is what Thunderbird does and it looks more natural to me. >> Did I explain clear enough what I want? > Well, above you've said you want to sort by number and then you present > an example which is not sorted by number... I don't know how thunderbird > sorts, so I cannot come up with a "just like thunderbird" configuration. Right, it should be 57585 [ tex-d-l-r] tex-d-l@li [tex-d-l Nachrichtenkompil] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:00:07 +0200 13k 165 57593 [ users ] oub@mat.uc [Subject: Digest of users@] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 08:00:27 +0000 (UTC) 38k 11 57606 [ Uwe Braue] Uwe Brauer [[CV] (was: [Amnu 19]) ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:30:41 +0200 8.8k 6 57609 [ +henar de ] Uwe Brauer [ ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 09:35:45 +0000 10k 13 57621 [ Uwe Braue] Uwe Brauer [[stuff] (was: [CV]) ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:04:34 +0200 9.4k 16 My point being, that gnus does not sort it according to its own numbering. > BTW, you can also re-sort the summary buffer interactively using the > commands bound to the C-c C-s prefix. That's probably quicker to find a > sorting version that suits your needs. My feeling is, there is a bug in gnus, sort by numbers does not work, when threading is on. Maybe later I send a bug report. Thanks for your help Uwe