What about sorting e-mails? By size, for example?

EpicEng · on April 29, 2018

I'm sure the four people who want to wort their emails by size are severely disappointed.

dvfjsdhgfv · on April 29, 2018

It's definitely not something you do everyday, but once your mailbox get full you wish the option was there.

benrbray · on April 29, 2018

I think that's a very uncommon use case and I can't think of a time I've ever wanted to do that. I've sorted by "has-attachment" but why would you need to sort by size?

rrdharan · on April 29, 2018

Well it becomes important when your .PST file is about to hit the 2GB limit and you need to find large attachments to delete.

https://www.lifewire.com/outlook-pst-files-size-limit-117334...

(NB: I’m being facetious, and agree with you - this, 15ish years ago, is really the last time I remember needing to sort by size)

dvfjsdhgfv · on April 29, 2018

When Gmail first rolled out, this was one of the most often asked questions. The usual answer was that the question is wrong, because Gmail is different and one doesn't need sorting. Fast forward 14 years and users still have to use workarounds like size:20m (that appeared in 2012 IIRC). It doesn't show message size either as if it didn't matter at all.