> This one time, at band camp, Thijs Kinkhorst said: >> On Saturday 5 May 2007 09:17, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: >> > Debian supports six different IMAP servers. Two of them don't support >> > server side sorting. One breaks on Korean translation. >> >> I agree with Tomas here that there's really not enough support in Debian >> for >> server side sorting yet to enable it by default. However, I do think >> that it >> would be a good idea to see whether we can add some kind of detection to >> configtest.php and advise the user to enable it. > > Whichever way you want to go is probably fine. I just have to note that > bincimap-run and mailutils-imap4d are not particularly serious IMAP > servers, in that they don't support other extensions that are now 7 > years old. But I can imagine that might be enough to give you pause. > > If you can either a) advise the admin to enable it in the case where the > IMAP server is localhost, or b) mention that any recent IMAP server > supports it for Western locales, that would be helpful by itself. I > happen to already know this, so it no longer hugely helps me, but I am > trying to save others the effort of researching why it takes so long to > load a large IMAP folder.
Include server side sorting in presets. Put warnings about unsupported charset in affected servers (courier, cyrus and hmailserver). Or automatically switch to internal sorting, if SORT fails. SquirrelMail 1.5.1+ already includes fallback from SORT to internal php based sorting. -- Tomas
