Tickets :: Comment on [#9684] Changing sort direction doesn't work

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Comment	>>> Obviously sorting in search results won't work. >> >> At least from a user perspective, not sure how this is obvious? > > How so? Sorting is (or at least should be - that's the point of this > ticket) disabled in search mailboxes. This is the way IMP has always > worked. So it should be obvious to users, when they can't change the > sort columns, that sorting is not possible in a mailbox. > > Simply put, this is a limitation of IMAP. IMAP searches by mailbox > ONLY. Now that I have written client side sorting in the Socket > driver, it is possible to do sorting among multiple mailboxes. But > this will require a significant alteration of the code in > Imap_Client, and won't work for all sort options (e.g. > sequence/arrival sort). > > --- > > Sure enough, the commit that removed the sort_limit configuration > option is what removed the ability to lock a search mailbox from > being sorted: > > commit d08804fd706e3cea9c3ea9aa9d9901b17dcf6fa9 > Author: Michael M Slusarz <slusarz@curecanti.org> > Date: Fri Mar 5 09:50:31 2010 -0700 > > Remove 'sort_limit' configuration option. > > This option was meant to work around slowness/inadequacies of c-client. > Our Imap_Client library is much faster, so this should not be an issue > moving forward (if someone really wants to sort their 1,000,000 message > mailbox by thread, I guess that should be their option). >
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