[Dovecot] Sorting in IMAP list command?

[Ronald Johnson]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 5.1.2010, at 3.19, Ronald Johnson wrote:
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>> I'm running Dovecot 1.2.9 and have noticed the IMAP list command does not appear to send a sorted list of folders with list command.
>>     
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> I thought all IMAP clients did the sorting internally. So yeah, I haven't added extra unnecessary code for it. Although I think if you're using Maildir (with Maildir++ layout) it'll get sorted.
>   
Hi Timo,

Thanks for the info. I think most clients do sorting, but it seems 
Smartsieve doesn't. I guess since it is Cyrus-centric, it must assume 
the list is already pre-sorted from Cyrus so it just uses a PHP 
imap-list method to get the list of folders. Using Dovecot with 
Smartsieve shows the unsorted folder list.

I tried setting the LAYOUT=maildir++ option, but still don't get a 
sorted list. I'll try with a new account, but otherwise I can just 
modify Smartsieve to sort the returned list.

Cheers,
Ron