Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

[Tassilo Horn]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

Hi Eric,

> No, I'm an idiot. It was a red herring -- looking at the wrong groups
> at the wrong time. The actual problem seems to be that thread sorting
> works correctly in all groups except my "mail.*" groups. Works right
> in nnmairix groups and my nntp groups, but not mail.anything.

I think, Gnus doesn't do anything different when sorting mail summaries
or other summaries.  The only explanation I can think of is that you've
set Group or Topic Parameters overriding some sorting variables for a
certain set of groups.

Depending on how you've customized them, the settings could be either in
your ~/.emacs, your ~/.gnus.el, or in ~/.newsrc.eld.  Could you please
grep those files for "sort"?

Well, you already told us that `C-h v gnus-thread-sort-functions' inside
a summary buffer had the correct value.  But were you completely sure
that you did that in one of your mail.* group where the sorting is not
as you like?

Bye,
Tassilo