[Dovecot] Sorting by Sender Name
Dear Timo,
Posted this originally to the squirrelmail list but they said that sorting is done server side so concluded I needed to talk to you:
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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.
In the message list the name 'Daniel Smith' is then shown, not the email. When sorting by From it should use the name as the sorted element and NOT the email address.
If my email was zippydan@yahoo.com, my emails, showing as 'Daniel Watts' would come right near the bottom of the list rather than with the other 'D's near the top.
I know my email clients (Thunderbird and Outlook) both act like this - using the name if available and if not THEN using (and displaying) the email address. This seems to make the most sense to me.
Thanks as always for your attention. Daniel
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. :)
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@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.
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Daniel Watts
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Timo Sirainen