Re: [SM-USERS] Re: thread sort

[Jason M. <ja...@st...>]

Will Yardley said:
> Jason Munro wrote:
>
>> Not too long ago there was a thread sort discussion on the user
>> list, I have since done a little checking and I like what I have
>> found.  Turns out both Courier and UW (I bet Cyrus does as well)
>> support thread sort both by orderedsubject (a method of sorting
>> based on subject content) and by reference ( a line in the
>> headers that records reply-to message id's ).
>
> just be careful - courier (at least) supports disabling this
> behavior, so while it is nice to be able to support it (for
> speed), any final implementation of threading in squirrelmail
> should probably also have a "client" side implementation, even
> though the server-side sorting may be faster if it's available.

Agreed, I'm just thinking one step at a time.
server-side seems a good place to start and its on by default with UW
installed from an apt-get in debian. I envision a thread sort plugin
with the ability to enable it for selected folders.
Server-side/SM-code and orderedsubject/reference would be options. Not
too sure where to hook the plugin code, but SM is flexible.

> that would most likely be a lot more difficult / time-consuming
> to code, though, so perhaps it's better to wait a bit to add that
> (at the risk of it never getting added at all).

Be optimistic Will!

>> I will be updating SM's reference header handling in a few days
>> (hours?) to correctly proccess reply-to history (thanks Will)
>> which is the first step to allowing thread sorting by reference.
>
> excellent! thanks for being so responsive on this issue, and glad
> that i could point out the issue even if i know very little PHP.

I have to admit I have tons of other SM things I should be working on
but sometimes things just grab me and I cant stop thinking about them.
I can see a nicely formatted thread-sorted SM mailbox display in my
head, I want to see it on the screen.

> --
> Will Yardley
> input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >
>

Jason Munro
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