[imp] # sign column

[Todd Aiken]

> Quoting Todd Aiken <taiken@ubishops.ca>:
> 
> | Silly question, but what is the # sign column supposed to be in the
> | INBOX message listing?  My numbers don't appear in any specific
> | order... they seem to be random, even when I try to sort on this column.
> | Is it possible to remove this column from the listing?  When I tried the
> | demo site, I don't get this column. | 
> 
> It is the index of the message by arrival time (i.e. 1 is the earliest
> received message, the largest number is the most recent message).  The date
> field is whatever the message says its date is - this is not always 100%
> accurate - see spam for example.

Ah okay, that makes sense.  Thanks for the explanation.

But when I sort using that field, shouldn't the numbers appear 
sequencially?  Because they do not on my system.  In fact, I did a side 
by side compare, and the messages in my INBOX appear in the same 
order no matter if the "#" field or the "Date" field is checked as the sort 
order.


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