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

[Jessie H. <squ...@je...>]

>
>
> 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.

Alright I was afraid of that.
I seem to have read on the Dovecot list that this sorting is done by the
mail client [1].

Would it be possible to request such a feature for squirrelMail?
or should I really check with the Dovecot people and is it a feature I
need to discuss over there?

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[1]: https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-July/077857.html