On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 15:05 +0200, Warren Baker wrote: > 2008/11/7 Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 14:37 +0200, Warren Baker wrote: > >> But if we fetch the latest 25 messages, Dovecot will fetch the lowest > >> UID in the list first, so from the example above it would fetch UID > >> 171,172,173 and so on. Courier on the other hand would start the fetch > >> on UID 195,194,193 and so on. > >> > >> We have an internal developed webmail application that has been > >> affected by this change, so I am just wondering whether there is a > >> interim fix while we fix our webmail application to cater for this. > > > > Not really. I'm sure you'll have your webmail code fixed before you > > could have changed Dovecot to return results in different order.. > > Yes of course - was just wondering whether there might be some hidden > config option.
No. Dovecot is optimized to return fetch results in incremental order. It's not easy to change it. > You are absolutely correct though that webmail would be > fixed quicker :) > > Are there any guidelines for IMAP servers indicating what the fetch > order should be? Untagged results may be returned in any order the server wants, as long as all of them are returned before the tagged OK. Actually with Dovecot v1.1+ if you send multiple FETCH commands at the same time you might get the replies in different order than you expect.
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