On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:45:47PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote: > The main issue is that some popular IMAP servers (gmail, exchange), > do not support the SORT extensions, so you wouldn't be able to do > the pageful-at-a-time and still have all of Mutt's current threading > capabilities.
Interesting. I'd still like to open the folder and see it in the one order quickly, with the enumeration happening in the background, so that eventually I could sort it any way I like. > You are correct that major surgery would be required to change Mutt. > A few years back I wrote a patch to lazily load the message headers, > but the lack of threading support made it mostly useless. Are you referring to pthreads or mail therading? Nico --
