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:
The Dovecot support for X-REFERENCES2 is very useful to know about!
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...
May I ask what is the rationale behind the second patch?
I took a look at all three patches and the follow up. I think the idea of a 'default' sort order is a good one. I have been testing the threading implementation with a 70,000+ message mailbox and having the option to set the sort order to 'default' should improve load times even if threading is turned off. I would like to integrate this with the GUI so that, e.g. clicking the Date column toggles between ascending, descending and 'default' (since the default sort order sorts by date in some fashion). I also saw you had tweaked which messages are expanded by default. My personal preference is to use a slightly different algorithm, namely: unread = collapsed read + any descendants unread = expanded read + all descendants read = collapsed This assumes the threads you are interested in are the ones you have read. If any new replies are added to those threads you want to see them. However threads where you have not read the root of are probably not interesting so shouldn't be expanded.
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