Re: [Dovecot] Sorting by Sender Name

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@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. :)