Arranged By: Conversation problem

[Tomas]

Hello,

I am subscribing to several mailing lists. All messages from these
lists have a subject prefixed by "[listname] ", e.g. "[vlc-devel] Re:
Memory leaks". I'd like to use Outlooks "Arranged by conversation"
feature, but Outlook gets confused by the prefix.

In an attempt to solve this problem, I wrote a little script which
removes the prefix from the subject:

Sub vlcdevel(Item As Outlook.MailItem)
Item.Subject =
Right(Item.Subject, Len(Item.Subject)-Len("[vlc-devel] "))
Item.Save
End Sub

I applied this script by using the email rules.

The script seemed to work fine, and "Arrange by subject" behaved
perfectly, as opposed to before. Still, "Arranged by conversation"
didn't work. It appeared as if "Arranged by conversation" looked at
the email header field "Subject:", and this field was still the same
as it was before I ran the script.

"Arrange by subject" works quite well now, and each conversation is in
one group (thread). But I'd like to sort the threads by date instead
of alphabetically by subject. "Arrange by conversation" has this
option, but I can't use it in this case..

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can solve this problem?

-Tomas