<DKIM> Re: [PATCH] Re: Sort message UID list

[Dmitry Alexandrov]

Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:42:35AM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
>> Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net> writes:
>> 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Hello.
>> 
>> I’ve just installed OfflineIMAP, made an initial sync — and got my mail
>> folders in a messed up order, so I found this thread.
>> 
>> The point is, as I can see [0], that a list of messages is returned
>> unordered for now again.  So may I ask, what happened with this little
>> patch over the last four years?  Why was it reverted back?
>> 
>> [0]
>> https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/blob/473be4c66fd98f767257c861d7783049a234e33f/offlineimap/folder/Base.py#L305
>
> I have no idea why this never hit the mainline. Applied.
>
> You can test current `next` branch.

Many thanks.  At first glance, anything works okay.