On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:37:19PM EDT, Jukka Salmi wrote: > I don't really understand how Mutt sorts messages in the index menu. > > I set sort=threads and sort_aux=last-date-received; this worked as > expected (and as described in the manual[1]) until I moved my mails > to a new IMAP server (using imapsync[2]). Since then messages don't > seem to be sorted correctly anymore. Setting sort_aux=last-date > partially solves the problem, but I don't like messages from people > still living 0 ticks past the epoch to appear at the top of my index > menu... > > How does Mutt sort messages? Does it look for a certain message header? > Or for a IMAP flag (I don't really know IMAP...)? > > Explanations are most welcome! I'm going to take an off-handed guess that imapsync probably adds a Received: header or something like that, making your IMAP server assume a different date received. I haven't looked at imapsync, though, so I obviously don't know. HTH, - Dave > [1] http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#sort_aux > [2] http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/ -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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