server side sorting on date

[Jason Munro]

On 10:31:23 am 07/20/05 Jason Fesler <jfesler at gigo.com> wrote:

> >  and when I disabled server side sort and let the client handle it
> >  everything is sorted properly.  We also have users using
> >  thunderbird and mozilla mail with no problems, however I am not
> >  sure if these clients use the SORT imap extension.  Anyone with
> >  any ideas?
>
> Client side sorting is based on the "Date:" field I suspect, instead
> of the binary indexed data that the server has.

Squirrelmail used to have a setting in the display preferences section that
read something like "use internal date" which IIRC toggles the IMAP SORT
command from DATE to ARRIVAL. By changing that user setting you can still
use server side sorting and sort by the date in the headers.



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