On 5:28:27 am 05/05/05 "Jonathan Hutchins" [email protected] wrote:
Just a follow-up on our earlier discussion of why it's important to have your date set correctly:
I'm using Squirrelmail pretty much exclusively right now, being in England. SM 1.4.4 doesn't have the ability to sort by order received, nor to find "next unread message". It's not a problem in this list, but in my main inbox I've accumulated six "new" messages buried somewhere in the "past" because their date is incorrect. Most likely just spam, and I'll track them down when I get home, but there it is.
I just deleted the offending messages in here that were "stuck" at the top of the list because of their back-to-the-future dates.
Squirrelmail does allow you to sort by receive date, it's in Options -> Display prefs -> Enable Sort by Receive Date:. IMAP supports an INTERNAL DATE value that represents the received date of the message independant of whatever date is in the headers. If you want a web based mail client similar to squirrelmail that does allow you to see all unread messages for selected folders without having to page through them you can check out my project here:
http://hastymail.sourceforge.net/
We have a "new mail" page that can be configured to display unread messages in any folder in your IMAP account. You can operate on the messages directly (delete/move/read/), sort them by any method your IMAP server supports as well as collapse and expand each folders view.
__ Jason Munro __ [email protected] __ http://hastymail.sourceforge.net/