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benjojo posted 18 Mar 2026 11:26 +0000

why why why the does Thunderbird let you sort by email subject, I have never wanted to do this and I always do it if I "miss" trying to open the newest email, and when you have a 100k+ inbox this little maneuver's is gonna cost you 51 years of CPU time

jamesog@mastodon.soc.. replied 18 Mar 2026 12:00 +0000
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@benjojo Don't have so many emails in your inbox? 😝

benjojo replied 18 Mar 2026 12:09 +0000
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@jamesog the 'all mail' folder is like 400k+ :p

benjojo replied 18 Mar 2026 12:24 +0000
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@jamesog I think i've become a very different kind of email user in the past couple of years, So I've started to understand all of the things that seemed overkill in things like Microsoft outlook. A nicer email client would be nice but I will take the best compromise, that being thunderbird for now...

ozone89@techhub.soci.. replied 18 Mar 2026 19:17 +0000
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@benjojo there's a plugin to prevent misclicks, makes it so that you have to ctrl+click the pane to sort

https://services.addons.thunderbird.net/En-uS/thunderbird/addon/no-message-pane-sort-by-mouse/

benjojo replied 18 Mar 2026 20:55 +0000
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@ozone89 yooo this is useful thanks! I'll give it a go

benjojo replied 18 Mar 2026 11:28 +0000
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A cat photo in a toy car with the caption saying don't ask me where I'm going. I'm going insane

pj@donotsta.re replied 18 Mar 2026 11:49 +0000
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@benjojo you and me both, i wish i could lock the filter columns since I'm almost never touching them

wolf480pl@mstdn.io replied 18 Mar 2026 11:38 +0000
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@benjojo
I used sorting by subject a few times when trying to clean up my mailbox - makes it easier to bulk-delete spam, automated alerts, etc

wolf480pl@mstdn.io replied 18 Mar 2026 11:38 +0000
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@benjojo
but yeah it only works up to a certain mailbox size

lambda@chaosfurs.soc.. replied 18 Mar 2026 11:46 +0000
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@benjojo I sort my emails newest-on-bottom and so I've never accidentally clicked the list header, maybe that's an option for you?

astraleureka@social... replied 18 Mar 2026 11:51 +0000
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@benjojo ah, the joys of MorkDB, CPU killer extraordinaire

darckcrystale@pipou... replied 18 Mar 2026 12:00 +0000
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@benjojo I think there is an extension to "freeze" email sorting