Re: [SM-DEVEL] Thread sorting based on latest child instead of initial mail

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

On 2017年03月20日 06:54, Jessie Hernandez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When sorting mails in squirrelmail I noticed that when you sort on threads
> squirrelmail sorts the emails based on the intial mail and not the latest
> child. So if I would receive an email on an old thread it will not appear
> on my first page at the top but somewhere on a old page. Is there
> something I am doing wrong with the sorting?
> 
> I have enabled sorting on my IMAP server.
> I am running on a rasberry pi where I use
> postfix
> Dovecot version 2.2.13
> squirrelmail 1.4.23 [SVN]

That's the way IMAP thread sorting works unfortunately.  IIRC, the
SORT/THREAD extension defines the THREAD command without any support for
the kind of sort you'd like (and I agree, it's not very handy).  You
could try asking in the Dovecot mailing list if anyone's found a
workaround to have the results of the THREAD command returned sorted by
the last, most recent child, but the RFC I believe is fixed to sorting
by the "root" (oldest/original) of each thread.  Let me know if you find
anything and I'd be glad to take a look at it.

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