[Dovecot] Fetch order

[Warren Baker]

2008/11/7 Timo Sirainen <tss at 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