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Re: [SM-DEVEL] Thread sorting based on latest child instead of initial mail
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From: Paul L. <pa...@sq...> - 2017-03-29 17:08:11
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On Wed, March 29, 2017 6:18 am, Jessie Hernandez wrote: >> >> >> On 2017å¹´03æ20æ¥ 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]. No, that thread post seems to be about two things, the Evolution client specifically (ignore that part) and IMAP THREAD. Timo said he had considered breaking RFC to add an option to make THREAD do what you (and lots of other people I would guess) want. > 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? It's not a mail client thing. You should beg Timo on everyone's behalf to do what he had been pondering at that time many years ago. Let us know if you get any movement on it. -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php |
