On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:24:41 +0200, Cor Bosman <c...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > In my view index_sort has nothing to do with threading. index_sort > just says 'do I use the Date: header, or do I use the message index as > the sort order'. This helps for instance to prevent spammers from > inserting a date header far in the future being always sorted on top > (and at the same time it can increase performance). This can influence > both threaded and non-threaded message views. Is this correct or am i > misunderstanding what index_sort does? > > If this is correct, then we need a totally seperate setting to tell us > how a user wants to sort a threaded message list and you cant just use > index_sort for that, because they're totally different things. We need > a setting that says 'do you want to sort your threaded message roots > based on first message in the thread of the newest message in the > thread'. And both of those could theoretically be influenced again by > the index_sort option. Say you want your threads sorted on first > message, then index_sort could change which message is first. Even > messages within a thread-level could be influenced by index_sort if > you really want to go that far. I do not agree with Chris that this > is something users want to change with a button. I believe the thread- > root-sort-order (first or latest) is a personal preference that users > tend to set just once. > > As another point, I do understand why Chris wants an unsorted view. In > dovecot this is really really fast, and I would also welcome such a > possibility.
You are right. There is index_sort which I do not personally need, but some users want and now it has been added to Roundcube - great. However I have one mailbox which is very large and Roundcube takes a long time to sort the messages in it (threaded or not). For this mailbox I want to just see messages in the order the server sends them back, and not have Roundcube sort them at all because it is too slow. Chris _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
