Tickets :: Comment on [#8922] Sort messages by arrival date not working correctly

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Comment	>> It seems that IMP assumes that sorting the messages by UID is the >> same as sorting them by arrival date. But this is not always the >> case. For example if I copy an old message to an IMAP folder it will >> get a new high UID but the arrival date stays in the past and should >> be sorted accordingly. > > You have an incorrect assumption as to how IMAP arrival times work. > Arrival sort, otherwise known as the message sequence number, is the > order in which messages are received in that mailbox. If you copy an > old message into a mailbox, that message "arrived" in that mailbox at > the time you moved it, not the time the original message was sent. > > It sounds like you want date sort, not arrival sort.
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