On Nov 12, 2008, at 12:34 PM, A.L.E.C wrote:
till wrote:
Pretty impressive change. I take it SORT is advertised in the capabilities, right?
Yes. Currenty we're using SORT command for messages list sorting
and now for searching results also.Do you have a list of imapd's who support this command?
I have no such list. SORT is described in RFC 5256. I'm using Dovecot,
In April of this year when use of SORT was first introduced in RC for
sorting, I did some research on a few common IMAP servers to see how
they support SORT. I just reviewed that thread, and did not see any
comments about any other IMAP servers being used besides the three I
researched.
Here is the info in my April post :
Courier - Web site [1] says "IMAP extensions that implement server-
side sorting."
Cyrus - The Wiki [2] indicates it supports "IMAP SORT and THREAD
Extension"
Dovecot - Home page [3] says "Supports multiple commonly used IMAP
extensions, including SORT, THREAD and IDLE."
[1] - http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/features.html [2] - <http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/ SpecificationsAndStandards> [3] - http://dovecot.org/
The Courier page now says "Sorting and searching in non-English
character sets."
The Cyrus page doesn't reflect that RFC 5256 was ratified 2008-6-9,
it still refers to the draft.
No change relating to SORT on the Dovecot page.
I also researched UW IMAP-
http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/RELNOTES.html
Looks like UW imapd has supported SORT from 2003, and using UTF-8 in
SORT since 2006.
Seeing that, it might be a good idea to test your search function
using characters that are above 8-bit.
Since hMailServer is listed on the Installation page of the Wiki, I
researched that :
http://www.hmailserver.com/documentation/v4.2/?page=feature_imap_sort
" hMailServer 4.2 and later supports the IMAP sort extension. "
Perhaps the Requirements page -
http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Howto_Requirements
should include mention of SORT support in addtion to requiring "IMAP
4 rev 1"
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I use Dovecot here.
Are people using other IMAP software, and does that software support
SORT ?
There is this list of servers that support IMAP :
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Internet_Message_Access_Protocol#Common_Server_implementations> and this list : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mail_servers#POP.2FIMAP
From that list, it might be worthwhile to research and / or test
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