On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:43:20 +0000, Nathan Kinkade nath@nkinka.de wrote:
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:17:24 +0000, Chris January chris@atomice.net
wrote:
Where are you at on your TODO list for threading support? I ask
because
if you have already started, then I was thinking I might take a stab at a couple of them, particularly sorting the message list based on the most recently receive message in a thread. But if you have already started in
I haven't implemented this yet. The TODO list should be up to date.
Cheers, Chris
So as I began to investigate the sorting of threads by the date of the
most
recent message in a thread rather than the thread's root message, I discovered that there is beginning to be support for this at the IMAP server level:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-morg-inthread-00
I happen to use Dovecot, and this functionality was introduced in the
first
alpha release of version 1.2 back in Sept. 2008 (http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-September/000084.html). I
also
use Debian, and v1.2 of Dovecot isn't even available in unstable or experimental, but I was able to build/install if from a source package referenced on the Dovecot site. If anyone wants the amd64 Debian
packages
for Dovecot 1.2beta1, just let me know. The functionality is introduced
as
a new and non-standard THREAD algorithm referenced by X-REFERENCES2,
which
I have verified to work on my own install.
Please note that all of these patches are dependant on Chris January's patch set to implement a threaded view: http://www.atomice.com/blog/?page_id=34, as indicated by the first
message
in this thread. Also, for this to work, your IMAP server must support a thread sorting algorithm that sorts based on the newest in-thread message rather than just by the date of a thread's root message. In Dovecot
(since
v1.2) this is supported as references above, but I have no idea how or
even
if any other IMAP servers implement this. I'd be interested to know if anyone else has more information on this. Here are the patches:
http://code.nkinka.de/gitweb?p=roundcube.git;a=commitdiff;h=61d007a3c6867766...
http://code.nkinka.de/gitweb?p=roundcube.git;a=commitdiff;h=945604dcb6805965...
http://code.nkinka.de/gitweb?p=roundcube.git;a=commitdiff;h=8018757b75262d00...
Nathan
I just discovered a bug in the patches I linked to above. I believe it is fixed by the following:
http://code.nkinka.de/gitweb?p=roundcube.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f612c34a9356eb0...
Nathan
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