[Dovecot] Thread sorting problem
I've just installed Dovecot on a Debian Sarge machine and am seeing some very strange thread sorting.
In Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird on both Fedora and Debian clients my threads served up by Dovecot look like this (number denotes message time):
|-11
| -12 |-2 |-3 |-4 | -5
| -6 | -7
| -8 |-1 -9
`-10
Where the exact same threads served by Sendmail/imap look like this:
|-1
|-2
|-3
|-4
| -5 | -6
| -7 | -8
|-9
| -10 |-11 | -12
Squirrelmail shows the threads correctly in both cases too, so I suspect there might be something funny going on with how Thunderbird handles Maildir threads. I notice that Dovecot doesn't support the THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT capability, might that have something to do with it?
thanks, Greg
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 15:05 +1200, Greg Trounson wrote:
I've just installed Dovecot on a Debian Sarge machine and am seeing some very strange thread sorting.
In Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird on both Fedora and Debian clients my threads served up by Dovecot look like this (number denotes message time):
Mozilla and Thunderbird do their threading internally and IMAP server can't affect how it's done.
Where the exact same threads served by Sendmail/imap look like this:
I don't know about Sendmail/imap, but a quick google lookup shows it's a webmail client, so that probably uses Dovecot's threading code.
Squirrelmail shows the threads correctly in both cases too, so I suspect there might be something funny going on with how Thunderbird handles Maildir threads.
So Squirrelmail shows it the same way as Sendmail? Then Dovecot is working properly, and Thunderbird is just threading differently than you'd want.
I notice that Dovecot doesn't support the THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT capability, might that have something to do with it?
No. No-one probably wants ORDEREDSUBJECT-threading.
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Greg Trounson
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