Apple mail sender sort reverts to end of alphabet

I was in a string where the issue of Yosemite's Apple Mail sorting on sender (or subject) resulted in a sort that reverts to the end of the alphabet, rather than retaining the selected name or subject.  This requires scrolling back through the entire list (now inconveniently sorted) to find the original highlighted sender or subject.  Before Yosemite the selected sender or subject would be retained, so that I could deal as I wished with the sorted group.  This is a huge time waste and Yosemite is a major down-grade IMHO for this feature which I formerly used frequently to organize a string of senders or subjects.  APPLE WHAT GIVES?  As well, I would have preferred to add my voice to the already-existing string on this topic, but of course when I signed in I was given a fresh page to start with.  Kinda like getting sorted to the end of the alphabet.  Convenient way for Apple not to hear a concerted chorus of voices on a particular topic.  DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND ANYMORE HOW PEOPLE USE COMPUTERS??

Greetings: Similar problem here after moving to 10.5 on a G4 MMD. MAIL.app has been working fine for a year - and still is on my MacBook with 10.4 and iPhone - but 10.5 mail is ignoring my attempts to get send using ssl with exact same settings. The new "connection Doctor" is a nice touch, but it still does not clear. Incoming mail OK, and my Eudora path to same smtp servers using SSL is also running fine under 10.5, so I assume it is a MAIL app issue.
I need to go the ssl route to get through my cable broadband provider's servers into my web-hosting site servers for send. Send to provider's servers sans SSL, and getting out through mac.com mail is also fine.

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