Tickets :: Comment on [#12139] Sort by message date broken starting with horde_imap

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Comment	>> One more thing. I see this behavior in both Traditional (basic) and >> Dynamic modes. You said that the problem in IMP was limited to >> dynamic I think. > > It doesn't happen in basic mode since there is no mechanism to > explicitly change the Date sort - it ALWAYS uses the 'datesort' > preference. > > Since the datesort preference defaults to sequence (pre-6.0.4: > arrival, which is slightly different), basic view out-of-the-box will > NEVER display messages in date display order (i.e. the dates that > are actually displayed on the screen). Sequence sort can appear to > not be sorted because it is not using those display dates - it is > using the order the messages were added to the mailbox. > > Message date sorting is a totally different sort type - and is > disfavored because it can be expensive to determine since all message > headers must be parsed.
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