Kevin,

RoundCube queries the support from the IMAP server using the "CAPABILITY" command. If you telnet to your imap port, you can check it yourself:

% telnet <server> imap
Trying <server>...
Connected to <server>.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK IMAP Server Ready
a CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 AUTH=PLAIN NAMESPACE QUOTA SORT
a OK CAPABILITY completed

If "SORT" is part of what is returned, then RoundCube knows it can use the "SORT" command to order the messages based on your selected columns.

-Eric

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 1:41:35 -0400, Kevin Landers wrote:

I am wondering what kind of look up or test RoundCube does in order to decide whether or not it will allow the user to use the sorting function at the top of the columns in your mail folders.

I have had the problem with quotas in the past, where RoundCube's initial look for Quota support in IMAP failed, even though Quota support does exist. So I had to comment out the checks for the Quota support in order to force RC to just go ahead and use the Quota functions.

I am wondering if RC is doing a similar lookup in reference to sorting. I have logged in using Brett's RC 0.1 Beta 2 demo install. I logged into a demo account provided by "SKaero" on the RC forums When I use his demo email account, the sorting features are present in each column. However, I then logged out and logged back in using my own account on my own server and I do not receive any sorting options.

Where should I look to resolve this issue? Anyone have any insights?

Thanks in advance,
Kevin L.