[imp] Problem with sort and courier-imap

[Federico Giannici]

Federico Giannici wrote:
> I'm switching our mail server from wu_imap to courier-imap (so we are 
> changing from mbox to maildir format).
> 
> A strange thing happens with the new server: IMP doesn't correctly sort 
> messages if ordered by id (order received)! Some message is bad sorted, 
> especially the first and the last one, but some other (apparently 
> random) message too...

I found the problem by myself: the sort is not by ID but by "order 
received"!

If I set a monotonically ascending modification date to the files then 
they are correctly sorted...


Bye.

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