you say you made the change "the other day".
well, so i must have noticed it right away.
this new setup is very incovenient because the new messages
(that i haven't seen yet) don't get appended at the top, but
get buried somewhere several lines below.
the better way to merge / import existing arhives may be
1. to have them send numbered files / tar files, or
2. add the "Archive-date:" field that overrides the msg date.
(i know that this is "additional complexity to the
system" that you hate.)
> > Date index seems be sorting messages by the "Date" in the msg
> > header.
> >
> > i'd prefer sorting by order of arrival to jab.org
>
> I just made this modification the other day, in version 1.3.2 (very
> minor update; see ftp://jab.org/pub/mailme/) because people wanted to
> import existing arhives into the service without mangling all the dates.
> The only way I know for importing, without requiring manual
> intervention, is for pople to resend the mail over SMTP to the
> archive address.
>
> In light of this, do you still think mail should be indexed by the
> recieved date? If so, why?
>
> Thank you, Jeff
