[dev] Message numbering in Descending order

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:42:58 -0400


Quoting Federico Giannici <giannici@neomedia.it>:

> I have found an annoying inconsistency: if the mailbox order is
> "Descending" then the order of the message numbers is descending but the
> numbers used in the mailbox window title ("X/Y of Z messages") are in
> the contrary order.
> So the numbers reported in the mailbox window title don't correspond to
> the actually displayed message numbers.
> 
> I think that this behaviour can really confuse the users and should be
> canged before the final release.

No, you are misunderstanding what that column is. It's just the order that 
messages have arrived in. Changing the other numbers you refer to makes 
_no_ sense.

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
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