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Sort and jump within a mail folder? Sort by from then jump to "J".

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AimCOtaco
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Trying to mimic a common workflow in m.outlook:

I would like to hit the 'from' bar to sort mail by the from field and then jump to a name by hitting a letter on the keyboard.

Example: Quickly find e-mails from anyone starting with the letter "B"; 1 click to sort and then a single keystroke to jump to the B's.

How?

Trying to mimic a common workflow in m.outlook: I would like to hit the 'from' bar to sort mail by the from field and then jump to a name by hitting a letter on the keyboard. Example: Quickly find e-mails from anyone starting with the letter "B"; 1 click to sort and then a single keystroke to jump to the B's. How?

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That's not the QuickFilter then. It does NOT open a new window.

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christ1
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Try the Quick Filter Toolbar. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/quick-filter-toolbar

AimCOtaco
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christ1 said

Try the Quick Filter Toolbar. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/quick-filter-toolbar

Familiar with that but the problem is that it opens the search results in a new window, sorted by relevance and only showing a few items...

This is worthless to me, I have many messages from a given user so seeing 4 sorted by "relevance" is of no value here.

It's still faster to hit the from field header and scroll endlessly... solution still desired.

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Zenos
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That's not the QuickFilter then. It does NOT open a new window.

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AimCOtaco
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The Quick Filter set to sender is doing what I want and it's only one extra click over the m.outlook method but delivers more complete results so this is the answer I was seeking. Thanks all.

I had missed this as I'd had previous releases were the quick filter didn't run and only produced errors so had not touched it literally in a couple of years but focused on the full search tool (which is great when needed).