268001 - IMAP Thread/Sort Extensions

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[kael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/0.9/

Mozilla Thunderbird should support the IMAP SORT and THREAD extensions which
"provide a means of server-based sorting and threading of messages, without
requiring that the client download the necessary data to do so itself"
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-imapext-sort-17.txt.

"The idea being that the IMAP server could give you back a list of messages in a
pre-threaded state, so that it wouldn't need to be done on the client side"
http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html.

Hence, if you open a mailbox from different locations, messages will already be
threaded as they are on the server.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Thread messages with Thunderbird from place 1.
2.Open the same folder from place 2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Messages are not threaded like they are on place 1 side.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should have displayed the messages already threaded as they are on
place 1, i.e. finally as thery are on server side.

Comment 1

[kael]

According to  some *IETF IMAPext members*, the THREAD and SORT extension could
be implemented with the _Message Grouping_ feature but in a limited way.

Please, see those posts
http://www.imc.org/ietf-imapext/mail-archive/msg02253.html and
http://www.imc.org/ietf-imapext/mail-archive/msg02260.html, and the thread
http://www.imc.org/ietf-imapext/mail-archive/threads.html#02258.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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