System email app "Sort by: ..." lost between reboots

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REPRODUCIBILITY: Always
OS VERSION: 5.2.0.17
HARDWARE: Jolla Phone 2026
UI LANGUAGE: English (GB)
REGRESSION: Since getting device

DESCRIPTION:

I want to set the system email to “Sort by: Status”. Every time I reboot, the system defaults to “Sort by: Time”.

PRECONDITIONS:

I have one “General email” account on the device which works on a rented server.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. I set “Sort by: Status”
  2. Reboot
  3. System email defaults to “Sort by: Time”

EXPECTED RESULT:

ACTUAL RESULT:

The system email does not respect my desire to sort by status

MODIFICATIONS:

Various repositories and android apps but nothing related to email configured. Quick app switch and Disable double tap to wake gestures enabled.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

My device has a weird Jolla Phone USB charging crash bug, most likely not related.

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Great bug report, thanks!

@dcaliste is (among other things) the email wizard, maybe he can take a look at why this is happening.

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The sorting parameter is kept only for the session (lifetime of the app), and not persisted anywhere.

You don’t need to reboot to see it, closing the app is sufficient.

This is likely by design, in which case this is not a bug but a feature request.

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Ok, should I remove this and add to feature requests? Its difficult to understand what are settings in reference to the pull down menus. Are pull down menus more like “actions” and settings somewhere else?

Edit: Yes, pull down menus are “actions” and not settings (and a pull down “action” cannot issue a setting). The framework is discussed for example here. So this would be a feature request for more settings on the system email app. There a are a few listed here and I’ll merge them.

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Usually yes, but that’s not a hard rule.

Persistent settings are either:

  • on a separate page, usually called - well - Settings
  • for some Jolla Apps in the Settings application under Apps.

As for the report, I guess you can leave it here. You could mark it ‘solved’ if you like, even it isn’t, strictly.

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You know what, this sound like a useful feature, I’ll see if I can cook up a patch for that!

EDIT: Ok, done.

Available via Patchmanager Web Catalog. Please test.

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Cool! I’ll test it. And 20 characters

Edit. This will take a moment because I need to figure out the Patchmanager Web Catalog :sweat_smile: I’m on 5.2.0.17. The current patch is for .16 (I enabled “Version check: No check”, activated the patch and set activate on booting). The pull down menu shows “Sort by: Status” every time I reboot (I’ve set it to “Sort by: Status” before rebooting). But I don’t yet know if what reads in the pull down menu is how it behaves. I will continue testing! Brilliant!

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Your handling of the patch is correct :slight_smile:

And you don’t need to reboot to test, simply restart the email app!

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Broadly speaking I think this works great. But there is an issue: When I got five new mails, the sorting produced an unexpected result.

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I was able to replicate the issue. When navigating from Notifications to the system email, the 1.0 version of Persistent Email Sort Order -patch lists messages weirdly and does not mark read messages as read (and move below the unread email on list).

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And you can confirm that this does not appear with the patch deactivated?