Group Mails in Thunderbird chronologically
Mails are sorted chronologically in Thunderbird by default but they are not grouped. Grouped means special folders for mails that arrived today, yesterday, last week, two weeks ago and old mail.
This way of sorting mails is incredibly helpful for a better overview in my opinion.
Each group lists the number of emails it contains and the number of unread emails, so that you know on first glance if there is new mail that you have not read yet.
You can enable that view by clicking on View > Sort By > Grouped By Sort. Every mail that you receive will be sorted into one of the five special folders mentioned above. Take a look at the screenshot to see how this looks in Thunderbird once you have enabled the feature in the client.
The view menu offers several other ways to display mails in Thunderbird. You can enable a threaded view for instance or sort the mails by other variables besides date. Possible variables include Sender, Subject, Tags and Priority.
You can combine those email sorting options with the group mails option. It is for instance possible to sort emails by sender instead date, and then use the group by sort option to group emails by all senders.
Please note that Thunderbird resets the grouping option every time you switch the sorting parameter. This means that you need to select the group by sort option again after changing the sorting parameter.
The other two sorting options are threaded, which groups email conversations together, and un-threaded which leaves all emails without grouping. You can also change the descending sort order to ascending, which basically turns everything upside down. This can be useful for Thunderbird users who do not want their newest emails displayed at the top, but from the bottom up instead.
what I like about the date grouping option is that you can blend out emails in the inbox. Instead of displaying all emails at all times, you can concentrate on today's or yesterday's emails instead without other emails getting in your way.
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I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
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Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
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I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
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Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!