[imp] how does SORTARRIVAL work?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Carl Anderson <carl151@yahoo.com>:

> i am using imp 3.0, and trying to view messages in the
> same order that they exist in the mbox mail spool.  in
> prefs.php the value of the $_prefs['sortby'] is set to
> SORTARRIVAL by default.
> 
> from the definitions, it appears that this sort means
> the order in which messages exist in the mailbox.  but
> this is not the case, it sorts by date anyway.  does
> SORTARRIVAL not really mean to leave the messages in
> the order they exist, or is there another
> configuration setting that i am missing?

SORTARRIVAL is a constant provided by php's imap extension. So if this 
sorting order (it should actually sort by arrival not by message date) 
doesn't work either the c-client compiled into php or your imap server is 
to blame.

Jan.

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