[Dovecot] Sorting by Sender Name

[Daniel Watts]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 14:45 +0000, Daniel Watts wrote:
> 
>> I feel there is an error in the logic of the sort by From column. If you
>> sort by this column, the messages are re-ordered in alphabetical order
>> using the *email address* as the sorted word.
>>
>> However most people these days have their clients configured to include
>> a sender's name. For example: Daniel Smith <daniel at hotmail.com>.
> 
> Unfortunately this can't be changed without breaking the standard. There
> was recently discussion about this in imapext mailing list. The plan is
> to add support for the name sorting in some future extension. Of course
> you could already modify your Dovecot installation to break the
> standard. :)
> 

Thanks Timo. Standards arn't always sensible. Even if they do not change 
the spec it would be good for Dovecot to include an admin option to 
override the standard.