Student Email - Sorting Messages
You can sort the message list by any of the named column headings or the Read/Unread column. When you click on a column heading, your messages are sorted by that factor first in ascending order. Click again and they are sorted by that factor in descending order. Date is always the secondary sort factor. The default sort factor is arrival time, which is slightly different from Date, as it reflects different system time settings and inserted messages.
The sort icons are:
- Up arrow (does not appear until you do a sort): ascending order
- Unread / Read: read messages are listed last.
- Attachments: messages with attachments are listed last.
- Priority flags: messages are sorted in this order: Highest, High, Normal, Low, Lowest.
- Date: latest messages are listed last.
- Size: largest messages are listed last.
- From: messages are listed alphabetically by the From line, A to Z.
- Subject: messages are listed alphabetically by the Subject line, by thread (prefixes such as RE, and FWD are ignored), A to Z.
- Down arrow (does not appear until you do a sort):
descending order
- Unread/Read: read messages are listed first.
- Attachments: messages with attachments are listed first.
- Priority flags: messages are sorted in this order: Lowest, Low, Normal, High, Highest.
- Date: latest messages are listed first.
- Size: largest messages are listed first.
- From: messages are listed reverse alphabetically by the From line Z to A.
- Subject: messages are listed reverse alphabetically by the Subject line, by thread (prefixes such as RE, and FWD are ignored), Z to A.
Note: When sorting on Subject, all messages with the same subject are sorted together (ignoring the Fwd: or Re: portion of the subject.) Notice that the default sort in any folder is ascending by date. This means, the oldest messages are always on the top. Although you can resort the messages every time you enter a folder, that sort will not stay when you close the folder. Upon reopening the folder, the default sort (ascending by date) will always be shown.
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