Re: Weird sorting possibilites?
On Monday, 05 January 2009 at 14:15, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Monday, January 5 at 11:34 AM, quoth Robin Lee Powell:
> > Is there any way to sort by "from address unless it's mine, in which
> > case use the to address"?
>
> Well, you asked a difficult question, so I'll break it into two parts:
>
> Part 1: Is there an *easy* way to sort by "from address unless it's
> mine, in which case use the to address"?
>
> No, unfortunately, there's not.
>
> Part 2: Is there ANY way to sort that way?
>
> I think there is, but it'd require a *LOT* of work. One of the sort
> methods is "score" where you sort your messages by a score that you
> have control over. I *think* it would be possible to design a
> sufficiently clever set of scoring rules that would allow you to
> create the sort order that you like. But like I said, that would
> require a TON of work.
>
> It would be much easier to ask the developers to make a from-or-to
> sort order (to match the %F field of the index_format). This could be
> painful for the IMAP driver, though, since the sorting cannot be done
> on the server side.
We don't use server-side search yet anyway (which is one of the
reasons mutt loads the whole mailbox on open). When (if?) we get
server-side search and partial mailbox loading, we'll just have to
have a fallback client-side mode for sort modes that the server
doesn't support. That's what we do for search right now.