Sort by name apple mail

My Mail is always sorted by date, but before, i could click on a mail, then click sort by name, to find another mail from the same person.
Now when i click on sort by name, the first email dissappeers and i have to scroll threw my 10.000 mails to get to the letter from the persons name..
As before it would stick with the mail i clicked on.

[This is a C&P from Leopard days but the problem has started for me in Yosemite]
Not sure if it is me or this is just the way Apple Mail works.
Logic would assume that if you select a message in Apple Mail and that message is highlighted, not opened, and you click the From column so you can sort by that column Apple Mail would make sure that, when it is sorted, the highlighted message would still be in your view.  I can get this to work sometimes and other times it does not, so it is starting to bother me.
Is there something that I am missing...some step...or is this just the way it works, sometimes?
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