[Jwebmail-devel] Re: feedback on you jwebmail project

[Sebastian S. <wa...@wa...>]

Am Don, 2003-03-20 um 16.14 schrieb Mike Danifo:
> Sebastian,
> I wanted to start off by complementing your jwebmail project.
> I had little to no trouble configuring it and using it initially. The U=
I is very nice, and it seems to have many desirable features.
> I had one comment about the usability, however.
> I wonder how useful this project can be for viewing email, as there is =
no easy way to sort messages.
> I don't see the usefulness of the current sort mechanism, message numbe=
r.
> The most obvious sorting mechanism would be by date, but when I see my =
message list, the messages are completely out of order by date. There als=
o does not seem to be any easy way through the xsl to fix this.
> I am wondering why this issue does not come up more often, whether its =
some sort of email server configuration that can take of this.
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The reason why webmail has no sorting mechanism at the moment is that
the Sun developers who are working on the JavaMail API refuse to
implement the IMAP sort command (I suggested it to them) because it is
not supported by all IMAP servers.=20

The other solution would be to retrieve all message headers and let
WebMail do the sorting. This is however not very desireable as it leads
to:
- much slower responsiveness on large mailboxes, as all messages have to
  be retrieved
- increased memory consumption

A third solution would be to implement the IMAP SORT command in WebMail
and process it in raw form (JavaMail allows for that), perhaps we should
investigate that.:-)

> Thanks again and complements on a nice project.
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> -Mike
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Sebastian

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