Sorting by date, sender, subject, subject A to Z or Z to A
Every other email I've used allows sorting by date, sender, subject. A to Z or Z to A (not the same as filtering by key word)

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Duncan Eyedaho commented
Being able to sort by Sender is an indispensable feature for clearing one's Inbox. I wish to sort by Sender and then select all – so then I can easily move that sender's emails into their own folder – by the dozens sometimes.
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Jack Griffin commented
promotes superior ease of use, rather than hunt and peck in a search ( example, for senders --maybe to delete older emails, or just delete them in one swipe) Thanks
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Larry commented
Hello Protonmail.
The lack of this sorting feature is a real pain in the bum. It can't be too hard to set it up, can it? Every other email provider that I have used has had it as standard - from the mid 1990's. Please make it a priority to add the ability to sort by the following:
name
domain
group contact
labels
attachment
date (month, days, years).I've just had a look down this page.
My second question - does anyone from protonmail read this? -
David commented
I would give a thousand votes for this if I could. I see the suggestion is 5 years old. It is unbelievable we don't have this yet. You start of wonder if this a "mistake by design", I mean, without the ability to sort mail it is a lot, and I mean A LOT, more difficult to clean up mailbox and free storage space, so, if we can't do this... we need more storage. Hope I am wrong here.
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elekis commented
Hi Proton
Please allow the possibility to sort mails by and group mails by...
name
domain
group contact
labels...
attachment
date (month, days, years).If possible with a new layout. A new column between the left column and the mail list. (a grouped column.).
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LK commented
Proton Mail should have a way to display both the From and Sender field when they are different, for example: a listserv message that is being delivered "on behalf of" a specific user/member. Currently, the person's name *is* displayed in the banner notification on mobile, but it is *not* visible when viewing the actual email from the mobile app or web browser. As far as I can tell, you have to go to "View Headers" and search to find the From/Sender section in order to find out who sent the message. For those of us subscribed to a busy listserv/email group, it is a major disadvantage when you can't easily tell who the messages in the conversation are coming from.
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user15 commented
Hello,
i haved disabled "add to contact automatically". So i wanted to sort of by sender...can you please? We are in 2022. Can you do both please.
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Niklaus commented
Yes please to SORT by sender, its one of two reasons I am not a paid subscriber.
I have 8000 emails in my inbox, how can I efficiently sort and delete without this function?
I get started now and then but tend to give up less than half way -
Scout51 commented
At current, I have emails come in Sender, Subject, size, date format, and sorted by date. I would like to organize by Subject, sender, date, size. The option to show/hide any one or multiple of those filters would be great too.
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P LK commented
A lot of times as I read a mail I like to be able to quickly view all mails by the same sender.
A suggestion for an implementation would be: As I click on their logo in front of sender name there could an option "View all mail" in addition to "New message", "Copy address", "Create new contact" -
Brian McLean commented
I still can't believe this has not been done. I see that quite a few of the comments including one of mine have asked for this for some years. Mine was in October 2020. I hate deleting without this feature. It is so slow, so I tend to have a lot of useless emails in my inbox. I still use Outlook for many of may emails partly because it has this feature.
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Wolfy commented
I would love to have the grouping features of received emails from the same sender/mail.
I saw this feature in a different mailservice, it was lovely not having to scroll through hundred mails but having specific mail groups automatically by sender.
All emails from amazon, ebay, dhl, etc, grouped as one and upon opening it all the mails of that sender.
This makes it also easier to spot phishing mails -
Wolfy commented
I would also love to have the grouping features of received emails from the same sender.
All emails from amazon, ebay, dhl, etc, grouped as one and upon opening it all the mails of that sender. -
Art commented
Same - all my votes. I really want to switch over from google but the lack of sorting is rough when I have a few hundred emails to go through
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Anonymous commented
A necessity. I won't pay for ProtonMail unless it has this feature.
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adrianmessenger commented
If you search here on the word SORT, there are 242 references or ideas, that’s 13 pages of results.
Granted, supported functions, such as FILTERing have more, 404. But that is to be expected, since it is an active and available function.
My issue is not being able to sort my emails or contacts by whatever criteria I want wherever it resides, whether labeled or not. Filtering is not an adequate solution. Filtering requires I know the criteria on which I want to filter beforehand. Sorting does not. Sorting allows me to find emails I didn’t know I received and group them together by criteria I choose.
Ideally, I should be able to perform bi-directional and simultaneous sorts, but even being able to sort by any one vector or column at a time is preferred over the limited selections we have now.
Admittedly, searching on SORT results in some ideas being included that aren’t related to sorting emails, such as the oldest idea found on page 13 which references sorting folders.
But even that indicates a hole in the services being rendered within the PROTON products, why is SORTING an overlooked and under-delivered function?
What is the point of posting these ideas about SORTing and so few being delivered? What is the point of voting on the various ideas of SORT with the key complaint in many of the ideas not being delivered? Does voting across different SORT ideas diminish the weight of our request to add this function?
I added a SORT idea back on 22 December 2016, #3186. At the time I asked for:
1) Ability to sort by sender
2) Ability to bring up messages not assigned a label
3) Ability to sort by labelIt seems to have been deleted. On 13 February 2017 I reposted asking for the same features and what happened to my earlier idea? No response. Here it is four years later.
I like PROTON’s products and I am a paying customer for PROTON mail, but lacking this function is an irritant and makes using the product much harder to use than it should be.
Functions should be added not to keep pace with your competitors, but to separate yourself from them. This would make your products better and improve your customer’s experience.
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Anonymous commented
Sorting (vs searching) by sender email would be VERY helpful. I have used this kind of feature with other email platforms and kind of disappointed that I am unable to sort by sender name.
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Anonymous commented
This would be incredible time saver. Missing this is what keeps Protonmail from being perfect.
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Anonymous commented
please add drop down menu to easily sort by subject or sender
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Anonymous commented
Beyond the dropdown menu of older vs new, and size of emails...very helpful when I have over 100 emails, say, from one particular sender, Otherwise, I have to hunt and peck, or do a global search for one sender/recipient in my emails...this also helps in reducing the size of my usage memory when needed.