2008/11/7 Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi:
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 14:37 +0200, Warren Baker wrote:
But if we fetch the latest 25 messages, Dovecot will fetch the lowest UID in the list first, so from the example above it would fetch UID 171,172,173 and so on. Courier on the other hand would start the fetch on UID 195,194,193 and so on.
We have an internal developed webmail application that has been affected by this change, so I am just wondering whether there is a interim fix while we fix our webmail application to cater for this.
Not really. I'm sure you'll have your webmail code fixed before you could have changed Dovecot to return results in different order..
Or you could of course have your webmail code issue commands a bit differently. Rather than:
a FETCH 3,2,1 ..
Issue:
a FETCH 3 .. b FETCH 2 .. c FETCH 1 ..
The latter is less efficient of course.
Yes of course - was just wondering whether there might be some hidden config option. You are absolutely correct though that webmail would be fixed quicker :)
Are there any guidelines for IMAP servers indicating what the fetch order should be?
In the mean time thanks for the suggestions Timo!
Warren