On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, James A Baker wrote: > Anyway... Are you sure that's what you are trying to fix though? Like I > said, I don't think Courier passes that information (from the filename) > on to any clients. I believe it only passes on 2 types of date > information: a) the INTERNALDATE property of the message (which should > be when it arrived anyway, but might get changed in some situations) > and which Courier stores in the modification time of the file (not the > filename), and b) the date strings embedded in the message itself. > > So, I actually don't see how this is going to help your situation. > Maybe a more precise description of what behavior you *are* seeing, and > what you'd *like* to see instead, would help someone come up with a > more useful suggestion. 'Cause I don't think this is really what you're > looking for either. >
Understood. This may do the trick, but it is a bit risky, as you mention with UIDs. The behavior I'm seeing has to do with IMAP clients (particularly Pine). By default, Pine displays messages in a folder in the order in which they are presented by the IMAP server. You can always, of course, sort by date. That works fine, except for messages sent by users whose clocks are set to 2024, for example. Anyway, sorting a folder with 15,000 messages in it isn't too bad either, but it is very handy to let the messages appear as they arrive (default in Pine, "sort by arrival")--very fast on both sides of the connection. The problem is that I've transferred a bunch of mail into my maildirs. Had I always used IMAP and left things on the server for the last 5 years, I'd be fine. But, trying to combine things for my new repository (which is working GREAT, for the most part) has messed all that up. I'm basically trying to programmatically "reset" things such that it is the same as if I'd always been storing my mail this way. And, as a post that just came in notes, it does appear that Courier IMAP presents messages in the same order that the filenames of the messages themselves sort (which is quite logical and certainly corresponds to their order of arrival, regardless of date headers). Going forward, everything is perfect as my messages arrive. I am just trying to bring all of the past (transferred) stuff into the scenario. Thanks very much, again. -- DY ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
