I'm using Apple Mail on my 2019 Intel iMac, running MacOS Sequoia 15.7.2. Mostly Mail works as usual, but if I search for say a particular sender, the results are shown in what looks like random order. I would like to see them in reverse date order, with the most recent mail at the top of the list. Is there any way to do this? If not, the search seems far less useful than it might be.
iMac 27″
Living Fossil wrote:
I'm using Apple Mail on my 2019 Intel iMac, running MacOS Sequoia 15.7.2. Mostly Mail works as usual, but if I search for say a particular sender, the results are shown in what looks like random order. I would like to see them in reverse date order, with the most recent mail at the top of the list. Is there any way to do this? If not, the search seems far less useful than it might be.
When I do that search, the search results come up with a column for "Date Received." If I click at the topmost part of that column, it sorts them by increasing or decreasing date order (oldest first, or newest first). If you don't see a "Date Received" column, you can configure Mail to include it in your display.
I only see one column, which shows each email, with the date at the right hand end of the top line. I must have missed something. How can I see that 'Date Received) column? I must have done something stupid. This is Mail version 16 by the way - the latest offered with Sequoia, I think. Here's a redacted version of the top part of the column I see (trendy!):
@steve26 is probably using the Column Layout (View > Use Column Layout) where the email are displayed in a table whose columns (eg, Date Received) can be sorted on the fly.
You don't need to use this layout, though. When you get your results, click View > Sort By > Oldest Message on Top to change the sort order.
6x6 is correct, I have always used View => Use Column Layout and then the sorting by date received happens by default. One can also choose which columns are displayed, one can display many or few columns, depending on how much info is desired.
Search in Mail - how to control the order of results?
