[imp] Does IMP support IMAP server-side SORT?

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Mon Feb 3 23:25:11 PST 2003


Quoting bclark at protocolusa.com:

> Does anyone known if IMP supports the IMAP server-side SORT command? I
> would think that using this could take some CPU load off of the Webserver 
> and put it on the IMAP server, which could handle the SORTs more 
> efficiently.
> 
> I looked through the IMP 3.1 config files and saw nothing that indicated
> that you could turn this support on.

We use PHP's imap_sort() call, which in turn calls a c-client function
called, I think, mail_sort_full (something like that). It was my
understanding that that function DOES use server-side sorting.

-chuck

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