Slow IMAP SORT
Aleksander Machniak
alec at alec.pl
Tue Aug 16 13:21:42 UTC 2022
On 15.08.2022 11:43, Ewald Dieterich wrote:
> The following IMAP SORT with 2 sort criteria is very slow on an mdbox
> mailbox with lots of mails (more than 10,000) and an empty cache:
>
> . SORT (ARRIVAL DATE) UTF-8 ALL
>
> Each mail is opened when the SORT is executed, which is slow, given the
> number of mails in the mailbox.
There might be a bug, but "SORT (ARRIVAL DATE)" itself does not make
much sense. It means "sort by arrival timestamp and for all messages
with identical arrival timestamp use Date header instead".
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Aleksander Machniak
Kolab Groupware Developer [https://kolab.org]
Roundcube Webmail Developer [https://roundcube.net]
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