On Nov 12, 2008, at 12:34 PM, A.L.E.C wrote: > till wrote: > >> Pretty impressive change. I take it SORT is advertised in the >> capabilities, right? > > Yes. Currenty we're using SORT command for messages list sorting > and now > for searching results also. > >> Do you have a list of imapd's who support this >> command? > > I have no such list. SORT is described in RFC 5256. I'm using Dovecot,
In April of this year when use of SORT was first introduced in RC for sorting, I did some research on a few common IMAP servers to see how they support SORT. I just reviewed that thread, and did not see any comments about any other IMAP servers being used besides the three I researched. Here is the info in my April post : Courier - Web site [1] says "IMAP extensions that implement server- side sorting." Cyrus - The Wiki [2] indicates it supports "IMAP SORT and THREAD Extension" Dovecot - Home page [3] says "Supports multiple commonly used IMAP extensions, including SORT, THREAD and IDLE." [1] - <http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/features.html> [2] - <http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/ SpecificationsAndStandards> [3] - <http://dovecot.org/> The Courier page now says "Sorting and searching in non-English character sets." The Cyrus page doesn't reflect that RFC 5256 was ratified 2008-6-9, it still refers to the draft. No change relating to SORT on the Dovecot page. I also researched UW IMAP- <http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/RELNOTES.html> Looks like UW imapd has supported SORT from 2003, and using UTF-8 in SORT since 2006. Seeing that, it might be a good idea to test your search function using characters that are above 8-bit. Since hMailServer is listed on the Installation page of the Wiki, I researched that : <http://www.hmailserver.com/documentation/v4.2/?page=feature_imap_sort> " hMailServer 4.2 and later supports the IMAP sort extension. " Perhaps the Requirements page - <http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Howto_Requirements> should include mention of SORT support in addtion to requiring "IMAP 4 rev 1" ===== I use Dovecot here. Are people using other IMAP software, and does that software support SORT ? There is this list of servers that support IMAP : <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Internet_Message_Access_Protocol#Common_Server_implementations> and this list : <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mail_servers#POP.2FIMAP> From that list, it might be worthwhile to research and / or test MS Exchange CommuniGate Pro IBM Lotus Domino Novell GroupWise Zimbra -- Charles Dostale System Admin - Silver Oaks Communications http://www.silveroaks.com/ 824 17th Street, Moline IL 61265 _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
