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Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> I need to sort my message threads, and the messages within the threads, in
> order of receipt.  This seems to me to be only logical since I want to read
> messages in the order they were posted, no?

There are a couple of things in your request that I am unclear on:

Do you want to sort by receipt time or sending time?  You say both as
though they were interchangeable, but they are quite different.

Do you want threading, or sorting-by-date after sorting-by-subject?
Often, messages in a grouping/thread/whatever are either in
chronological order or are threaded, but they cannot usually be both.

-- 
Justin Sheehy

In a cloud bones of steel.