Re: backup and synchronize to fastmail

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 May 2008, John Goerzen wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 6:10:41 pm Alejandro Jakubi wrote:
>> In addition to answers to my previous questions, I need explanations 
>> about these issues:
>>
>> 1. Sorting. My guess is that inmediatelly after runing offlineimap for
>> the first time, there will be a period of transfer (ie backup) from my
>> folders on my departmental account to my fastmail account. Will the order
>> of the messages in my departmental account folders be preserved in this
>> process? I am worried about this because of my experience with mailutil
>> (from the Pine toolbox) which, apparently depending on the version of the
>> imap server, keep or alter this order on copy or move.
>
> Maildir does not have a defined storage order.  The order of display is
> defined by your mail agent.  IMAP also does not have a defined storage
> order.  There is no way to enforce this.

Typicall, (al)pine sorts by the "arrival time" of messages.  With Maildir, 
that's usually the file modification time.

You can sort by "Sent time" ("sent date"?) which requires trusting the 
"Date:" header in the email itself.

-- Asheesh.

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