Mail sort order (time) will not remember my preferences

Hi, I have to reinstall my system from a crash, I copied most files from my backup. After that, I noticed that my mail in the new reinstalled system behaved funny.
It works properly when you quit Mail and restart the application, however, if left alone for a while, say after sleep or working for more than an hour or so, my sort order will be cancelled.
My sort order is by time, where the latest mails are at the bottom, but when I select a different mailbox and return to the previous mailbox, the sort order will always revert to the latest mail on top. There's nothing I can do to make the application stay with latest dates on the bottom. Please help.

Stingbook wrote:
Thanks for your help. What I did is to use time machine and got an old backup of this mail preference file. But that does not seem to work. I did it this way, so I don't have to reestablish my 6 e-mail accounts.
Does that mean the problem is not in the preference file?
yes, unless you restored from some time point when the problem already existed it does mean that it's not the preference file. did you quit Mail before restring the file?

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