dovecot - Apr 2003 - message order reversed on copying

Hi,

I noticed an annoying behavior of dovecot: the message order (sequence
numbering) is reversed on COPYing in the maildir.

I suspect that the following code in maildir-save.c is working like
"pushing".

		mf->next = ctx->files;
		...
		ctx->files = mf;

Later ctx->files is used like this.

		for (mf = ctx->files; mf != NULL; mf = mf->next) {

-- fuyuki

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 10:15, Kimura Fuyuki wrote:
> I noticed an annoying behavior of dovecot: the message order (sequence
> numbering) is reversed on COPYing in the maildir.
> 
> I suspect that the following code in maildir-save.c is working like
> "pushing".
Order for new mails is currently the same as the order in which
readdir() returns the mails. I guess some filesystems list the files in
the order they were written to the directory, but many don't. It anyway
can't be relied on, so I won't even try.

Better fix for this comes once I add support for UIDPLUS IMAP extension.
That requires knowing the new UID for mail in destination mailbox, so I
have to update the indexes immediately, which also saves the mail order
permanently.