[imp] reset sort order of a folder

[Steve Paras-Charlton]

Ok, got an odd question here.

I have a very large mailbox (20000+ messages) served to imp via imap  
with a Maildir back-end.   Unfortunately it is slow (yes I know I  
should clean up), and it is even slow enough that if I search in it, I  
get "no messages" regardless of the search criteria (I expect there's  
a timeout, but I haven't had a chance to look carefully).

My real problem is that I accidentally clicked about my first message  
and it is trying to sort my INBOX by From: field.  This results in the  
above mentioned suspected timeout, and I get "no messages" in my  
INBOX.  This makes reading my mail difficult, and unfortunately, since  
there are no messages, no headers are displayed, so I can't change the  
sort order back to msgno.

I've tried (without much hope) just resetting the default sort order,  
and as expected, no change.

Is there a way to reset the sort order on a folder without viewing it?

Thanks in advance,
Steve


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