Sorting

[Trae Dorn]

Adrian Snyman wrote:

>On Wednesday 15 February 2006 07:03, Mojo Jojo wrote:
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>>Any advice before I attempt this?
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>>Is it something that will be tough? Is this why it's not on the roadmap or 
>>just something most people don't need?
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>>Since I have not dug into the code much yet, if anyone has any helpful info 
>>on where I should start it would be appreciated.
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>>Finally, can someone tell me what the purpose of the sort options in the 
>>roundcube conf file if RC doesn't do client side sorting? Just a little 
>>confused I guess.
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>Just looking at the database structure ...
>If I look at it, the messages are stored in the database ...
>So why would the imap server need to support sorting ?
>If the messages are cached in the DB, then surely you can simply sort 
>by column when selecting messages ?
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Slight problem: Only the first page of messages are cached, so large 
mailboxes don't take a day and a half to load. 

Solution: To enable client side sorting, the caching would have to be 
written so via configuration files a webmaster could toggle full or 
parial caching of a mailbox.