I get something like that in the initial IMAP sync. Some of my old emails will surface to the top with the current date as today. Never really bothered looking into as it only happens once, but I've been assuming that the date header on those emails were missing.
Re:Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design
by 1718627440 on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @02:16PM
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Yes, I also had that problem and this is exactly the cause. When you resync the mailbox later it gets redated again. It is actually really stupid, because there are only TWO mandatory headers: Date and From. Getting this wrong seams to be really incompetent of the sender software.
Re:Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design
by markasoftware on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @05:03PM
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i see, this likely happened to me.
Or just maybe click the arrow to sort by date ?
Re:Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design
by xnorswap on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @11:05AM
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I'm going to be controversial and say that if sorting by date isn't the default in an email client, it's a broken client.
That's beyond just breaking "Have sensible defaults", and is well into, "Your defaults are broken".
That's the default.
But it sounds like OPs mails were sorted differently for an unknown reason.
Re:Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design
by dingnuts on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @10:59AM
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lol seriously, my guy didn't even wait until imap was done. what vendetta does he have against Thunderbird
Re:Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design
by dotancohen on Thursday July 17, 2025 @05:16AM
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Probably the same vendetta they I have against Windows. Every time I try it, I find it so frustrating. So every time I try, I afford it less and less patience.
I was impressed that it correctly inferred the IMAP and SMTP settings for my custom domain name, but after using it for ~30 seconds random old emails started appearing at the top of the email list, above my latest emails.
Maybe I'll try again in another 5 years.
edit: someone thinks i didn't wait for imap to finish. I did. My latest email appeared at the top. Then 30 seconds later some ancient emails popped up above it, seemingly triggered by scrolling in the email list pane.