Re: [SM-DEVEL] Sort by ascending date in message list: display last page by default. Patch attached.

[vispez <vi...@gm...>]

Hi Thierry, 

I've got the same problem on my 1.4.13 SQM installation, with the difference
that I've noticed the ascending date sorting *only* in the search results
panel (the oldest mail matching my filter is displayed first). As I'd like
to test you patch on which version did you tested it? Do you believe that it
addresses the same issue? I'm asking this since I've notice for example that
using just the IMAP interface (Courier 4.1.1) and a local client
(Thunderbird 2.0.0.1.4) to fetch the emails, I've seen the same behaving. In
your opinion it could depend on the IMAP server configuration (the default
one in my case) or it's a SQM bug?

Best regards, 

Jeremy


Thierry Godefroy-3 wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Like many people, I like having my messages sorted by ascending date (last
> received message at the bottom of the list) in my mailbox folders. Alas,
> and
> unlike most (all ?) others MUAs, Squirrelmail displays the first page by
> default regardless of the sort order (meaning the oldest messages are
> presented
> first and you must move to the last page manually to see the latest
> messages).
> 
> While in all the other sorting cases (sort by recipient, by origine, by
> subject...) this is indeed the correct behaviour (when you sort by
> ascending
> alphetibetical order, you want the "a" page to show first), when you sort
> by
> ascending date, it is not as much as to see the date sorted than to have
> your
> most recent messages appearing at the bottom of the list (which also makes
> the
> "next" and "previous" messages links more meaningful in the reading form:
> the
> next message in the list being also the message that you received next).
> 
> For this reason, I produced a patch which makes SQM display the last page
> of
> the mailbox messages list whenever it is sorted by ascending date (either
> message or received date sorting).
> 
> Another feature that would be nice to implement (but that I did not find
> time
> to implement so far) would be to have every page display the same number
> of
> messages, i.e. if you configured SQM to display 20 messages per page, each
> page
> should display 20 messages, even if you got 25 messages in total in the
> mailbox: this would mimic what happens when you have a messages list
> displayed
> inside a scroll list, for example, and would minimize the need for the
> user to
> switch between pages (also meaning less load for the server...).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Thierry.
> 
> 

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