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

Cyrus Daboo <daboo@cyrusoft.com> Wed, 27 August 1997 19:30 UTC

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Subject: re: Sorting Extension - was Re: IMAP4: reordered mailbox during session
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--On Wed, Aug 27, 1997 12:03 PM -0700 "Mark Crispin"
<MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> wrote: 

> I am busily writing code for SORT now.
> 
> SORT will not change any ordering in the mailbox, but rather will give
you a
> list of sequences (or UIDs) in the requested sort order (e.g. by date,
> subject, etc.).
> 

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?


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