On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:43:20 +0000, Nathan Kinkade <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:17:24 +0000, Chris January <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Where are you at on your TODO list for threading support? I ask > because >>> if >>> you have already started, then I was thinking I might take a stab at a >>> couple of them, particularly sorting the message list based on the most >>> recently receive message in a thread. But if you have already started >>> in >> >> I haven't implemented this yet. The TODO list should be up to date. >> >> Cheers, >> Chris > > So as I began to investigate the sorting of threads by the date of the most > recent message in a thread rather than the thread's root message, I > discovered that there is beginning to be support for this at the IMAP > server level: > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-morg-inthread-00 > > I happen to use Dovecot, and this functionality was introduced in the first > alpha release of version 1.2 back in Sept. 2008 > (http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-September/000084.html). I also > use Debian, and v1.2 of Dovecot isn't even available in unstable or > experimental, but I was able to build/install if from a source package > referenced on the Dovecot site. If anyone wants the amd64 Debian packages > for Dovecot 1.2beta1, just let me know. The functionality is introduced as > a new and non-standard THREAD algorithm referenced by X-REFERENCES2, which > I have verified to work on my own install. > > Please note that all of these patches are dependant on Chris January's > patch set to implement a threaded view: > http://www.atomice.com/blog/?page_id=34, as indicated by the first message > in this thread. Also, for this to work, your IMAP server must support a > thread sorting algorithm that sorts based on the newest in-thread message > rather than just by the date of a thread's root message. In Dovecot (since > v1.2) this is supported as references above, but I have no idea how or even > if any other IMAP servers implement this. I'd be interested to know if > anyone else has more information on this. Here are the patches: > > http://code.nkinka.de/gitweb?p=roundcube.git;a=commitdiff;h=61d007a3c6867766391afb7c5d02b85ff44df1e8 > http://code.nkinka.de/gitweb?p=roundcube.git;a=commitdiff;h=945604dcb6805965ed498e690b003770fa619210 > http://code.nkinka.de/gitweb?p=roundcube.git;a=commitdiff;h=8018757b75262d009bc6611be76bf4696d549caa > > Nathan
I just discovered a bug in the patches I linked to above. I believe it is fixed by the following: http://code.nkinka.de/gitweb?p=roundcube.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f612c34a9356eb002ed33494ccbcb1d9df3b872 Nathan _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
