Re: Sorting the summary

[Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>]

At Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:27:08 -0600,
Eric Larson wrote:
> 
> I started using offlineimap to sync an imap mailbox but the way
> offlineimap gets the mail messages seems to put them in random order
> in the wl sumary. I'm wondering if there is a good way to
> automatically sort by the date when starting the summary mode. 
> 
> I did try writing a hook using wl-summary-sort-by-date and
> wl-summary-sort but both seemed to accept an array of messages (at
> least that was my theory). 

Hi Eric,

wl-summary-sort takes a prefix arg for reverse sort. All it does is
prompt for a sort-by, then call wl-summary-rescan. Try calling:

  (wl-summary-rescan "date")

best, Erik