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re: Sorting Extension - was Re: IMAP4: reordered mailbox during session

Mark Crispin <MRC@cac.washington.edu> Wed, 27 August 1997 19:33 UTC

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Subject: re: Sorting Extension - was Re: IMAP4: reordered mailbox during session
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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 15:28:34 -0400, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> So the client will have to issue a SORT command after every COPY or APPEND
> to descover where the new messages should appear in its 'sorted view' if
> it is unable to do its own local sort to figure this out?

SORT only operates on the selected mailbox, so the above statement is true for
the case of COPY and APPEND to the selected mailbox.

Part of what I'm doing is trying to make SORT fast.

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