[PATCH] Re: Sort message UID list

Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net
Mon Jul 30 17:44:26 BST 2012


On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 08:16:56PM -0700, James E. Blair wrote:
> Return a sorted list of UIDs in getmessageuidlist.
> 
> Some MUAs (and their users) like to display messages in UID order
> (or "order received").  If offlineimap is used in IMAP<->IMAP mode,
> then the order messages are received by the second IMAP server will
> be different because offlineimap iterates over a UID list produced
> from the keys of a dictionary, which is unsorted.
> 
> This change sorts that list of UIDs so that both IMAP servers will
> have their messages in the same order (except those times where
> messages are appended to folders on both repositories between
> syncs).
> 
> Signed-off-by: James E. Blair <corvus at gnu.org>

Thanks; applied to pu, for now.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht




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