Subject: Re: Hard sorting folders

From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 30 Nov 1996 23:13:31 GMT

[Posted and mailed]

In article <[email-masked]>,
Terry Gray <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Ørjan,
>Aggregate operations, including save, certainly do work via IMAP.
>If you have any info on what's behind the rumor to the contrary,
>please let me know...

The rumor I heard (actually, it was a posting here in this group, you
might try DejaNews) is that while aggregate save works over IMAP, it
uses an IMAP command for this, which naturally does not know about pine's
internal ordering.  So you cannot use it to physically reorder a folder,
as the original poster of this thread requested.

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 19:14:45 -0800 (PST)

Ørjan,
I have some new info on this: 

In fact, sorting/saving works fine via IMAP provided that a) you are using
a recent version of Pine and b) you haven't turned on the hidden feature
"save-aggregates-imap-copy"  --which optimizes performance but doesn't
guarantee the order of the saved messages.

-teg

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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 12:31:47 +0000

yes. This used to work up to and including 3.91; was broken 3.92-3.94,
and was fixed for 3.95 following strong representations from me! 

On 3 Dec 1996, Terry Gray wrote:

:>Ïrjan,
:>I have some new info on this: 
:>
:>In fact, sorting/saving works fine via IMAP provided that a) you are using
:>a recent version of Pine and b) you haven't turned on the hidden feature
:>"save-aggregates-imap-copy"  --which optimizes performance but doesn't
:>guarantee the order of the saved messages.
:>
:>-teg
:>
:>On 30 Nov 1996, Orjan Johansen wrote:
:>
:>> [Posted and mailed]
:>> 
:>> In article <[email-masked]>,
:>> Terry Gray <[email-masked]> wrote:
:>> >Ïrjan,
:>> >Aggregate operations, including save, certainly do work via IMAP.
:>> >If you have any info on what's behind the rumor to the contrary,
:>> >please let me know...
:>> 
:>> The rumor I heard (actually, it was a posting here in this group, you
:>> might try DejaNews) is that while aggregate save works over IMAP, it
:>> uses an IMAP command for this, which naturally does not know about pine's
:>> internal ordering.  So you cannot use it to physically reorder a folder,
:>> as the original poster of this thread requested.
:>> 
:>> Greetings,
:>> Ïrjan.
:>> 
:>
:>
:>
:>

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