385777 - pop retrieve most recent messages first (make order selectable)

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement)

Description

[Ralf Hauser]

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jost the victim of a spam attack, i.e. a from of my domain was used and open relays sent the message really (our outbound mail normally has our received header and then the destination domain received header).

Thus got thousands of bounces (with a third "Received" header being the open relay between our first received header and the destination's received header).

Anyway, it is a nuisance in such situation if my thunderbird retrieves pop messages with "oldest first".

It should be possible to tell THB that once it has the message IDs after the "LIST" command, it should start the "RETR" with the highes numbers, not the lowest ones

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
takes ages if the mailbox is cluttered 

Expected Results:  
be able to read the most recent messages first while the rest still downloads (your peer may have sent you some hints how to stop this...)

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirming. xref bug 328418