dovecot - Dec 2005 - Squirrelmail/dovecot sort problem/bug

Hello,

there is a little bug in Squirrelmail 1.4.5 or Dovecot 1.0.alpha4-1:

the sort is not correct if I use squirrelmail with the option:
10. Allow server thread sort    : true
11. Allow server-side sorting   : true

with the option on false and with Thunderbird 1.5rc1 there is no 
problem, but I think Thunderbird 1.5rc1 already does the sort by itself.

I have a folder with 1054 messages, but if I sort (from old to new) them 
in squirrelmail the newest 3 messages (received after the migration from 
thunderbird/pop3 to dovecot) are on the first page, before the messages 
from 5 month ago.

14:08 	3.4 k 	    (that is today 8 dec, 2005 )
08:26 	5.2 k 	+
00:07 	2.9 k 	
8 jul, 2005 	4.1 k 	
6 jul, 2005 	3.5 k 	
3 jul, 2005 	3.1 k 	
8 jul, 2005 	4.1 k 	
6 jul, 2005 	3.3 k 	
8 jul, 2005 	3.8 k 	
5 jul, 2005 	4 k 	
8 jul, 2005 	7.4 k 	
11 jul, 2005 	6.8 k 	

Also my 'sent' folder: sorted from new to old contains on the last page 
2 messaged that I send today (after the migration to dovecot)

12 jan, 2005 	2.8 k 	
12 jan, 2005 	1.7 k 	
11 jan, 2005 	1.5 k 	
10 jan, 2005 	1.1 k 	
8 dec, 2005 	1.1 k 	( <= send from thunderbird)
8 dec, 2005 	1.6 k 	( <= send from squirrelmail)

And also an other mail folder has sorting problems.


However my INBOX looks normal, while I received 5 or 6 messages after 
the migration.


What have I done:
*restarted apache2 a couple of times
*restarted dovecot a couple of times
*In the first folder (with >1000 messages) I already have deleted the 
dovecot files and new files are generated
-rw-------    1 alfred alfred 17184 2005-12-08 23:41 dovecot.index
-rw-------    1 alfred alfred 60416 2005-12-08 23:42 dovecot.index.cache
-rw-------    1 alfred alfred 17908 2005-12-08 23:42 dovecot.index.log
-rw-------    1 alfred alfred    10 2005-12-08 21:15 dovecot-keywords
-rw-------    1 alfred alfred 40600 2005-12-08 23:41 dovecot-uidlist
*closed webbrowser and restarted a new firefox 1.5 and surfed to 
squirrelmail.


I don't know if this is a dovecot or squirrelmail problem.


Alfred

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Hi A.P.Munnikes,
On Thursday, December 08, 2005 you wrote:
> Hello,
> there is a little bug in Squirrelmail 1.4.5 or Dovecot 1.0.alpha4-1:
> the sort is not correct if I use squirrelmail with the option:
> 10. Allow server thread sort    : true
> 11. Allow server-side sorting   : true
> with the option on false and with Thunderbird 1.5rc1 there is no
> problem, but I think Thunderbird 1.5rc1 already does the sort by itself.
> I have a folder with 1054 messages, but if I sort (from old to new) them
> in squirrelmail the newest 3 messages (received after the migration from
> thunderbird/pop3 to dovecot) are on the first page, before the messages
> from 5 month ago.
In addition to Tomas' suggestion, you might want to check Options,
then Display Preferences, then check the option for "Sort by Received
Date". If you have it set to "Yes" try changing it to
"No" and see if
that helps. As you didn't elaborate as to /how/ you migrated from your
pop3 service to dovecot, or if you even changed anything in the back
end at all, there is a possibility that you are using the INTERNALDATE
of the emails. This date is the date the IMAP server identifies the
email by, which is not necessarily the same as the actual date of the
email itself if you copied it. ie, if you copy an email from one
location to another, and the email is dated say Dec 1st, 2000, the
internal date on the email in the new location would be the date/time
of the move.

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Jonathan Angliss
<jon@squirrelmail.org>
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