Thanks for the "junk at end" help. Now I'm having one more perplexing issue:

When I sort a Dovecot mbox in Pine, the most recent messages tend to linger near the bottom of the message list, regardless of how they're sorted. Here's a snippet of the bottom of the list, sorted by arrival time:

448 2003-09-24 20:31 sprightly@e... Re: *hoopoe 449 2003-09-24 21:05 mlescaut@w... Re: yes! 450 2003-09-24 23:57 jackulysses@y... Re: oh my lord 451 2003-09-25 01:43 sprightly@e... attachments==take a look 452 2003-09-25 01:29 avantguild@m... Your Membership is Almost Up 453 2003-09-25 10:40 heidi@p... xhtml 454 2003-09-25 11:04 dembo@s. Re: bridge 455 2003-09-25 11:54 JKesner@m... Bombay 456 2003-09-25 12:05 cm2144@c... Re: bridge at linda's

And here is a snippet of the same mbox list, sorted by From address:

449 2003-09-25 01:43 sprightly@e... attachments==take a look 450 2003-09-10 16:06 staff@c... Tribute in Light Shines 451 2003-09-08 18:44 starpiekat@y... Re: Sorry! 452 2003-09-23 22:01 starry@p... but... 453 2003-09-25 12:05 cm2144@c... Re: bridge at linda's 454 2003-09-17 17:07 wahrman@s... RE: bridge etc. 455 2003-09-19 13:11 wahrman@s... RE: bridge etc. 456 2003-09-15 23:39 waycross@u... waycross - the eagle

Notice that message from cm2144 in both lists, way out of order in the second!

I'm not 100% sure that this is a Dovecot issue, but I suspect it is, since this doesn't happen if I open the same mailbox locally or with UW-IMAP. I know that Pine makes use of IMAP server-based sorting if it is available.

I tried deleting .imap-index* files, just in case, but that didn't help.

thanks, Paul