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.
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/
On Thu, May 5, 2005 10:48 am, Jason Munro said:
Squirrelmail does allow you to sort by receive date, it's in Options -> Display prefs -> Enable Sort by Receive Date:.
Having an option vs. actually sorting the mail that way are two different things though, at least with this installation. Thanks for the reminder, but it's already checked.
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:
I tend to sort my mail into folders, for mailing lists and such, so a consolidated "new mail" page is pretty useless to me. Being able to quickly and easily toggle "view new messages only" would be very useful.
KMail has a search window that affects the currently displayed folder, and I've been finding it very useful.
I may play with your project when I get back, as mail has been one of my main projects for <ahem> many years, but for my webmail I need to keep in sync with a production server that has very illiterate clients, and to offer them as little challenge as I can.
On 4:29:06 pm 05/05/05 "Jonathan Hutchins" [email protected] wrote:
On Thu, May 5, 2005 10:48 am, Jason Munro said:
Squirrelmail does allow you to sort by receive date, it's in Options -> Display prefs -> Enable Sort by Receive Date:.
Having an option vs. actually sorting the mail that way are two different things though, at least with this installation. Thanks for the reminder, but it's already checked.
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:
I tend to sort my mail into folders, for mailing lists and such, so a consolidated "new mail" page is pretty useless to me. Being able to quickly and easily toggle "view new messages only" would be very useful.
The new mail page supports multiple folders (I have 30 or so I filter to) so thats not a problem. Each folder can be "collapsed" as well into just a folder name and total, so you don't have to scroll through all the messages in that folder if you don't want to.
see first shot here:
http://hastymail.sourceforge.net/features.php
Unlike Squirrelmail with hastymail you can select which folders to check for new mail (on the folders page), instead of just "all or inbox". This keeps the IMAP traffic to a minimum and only displays the folders on the new page that you really care about.
We also have per folder sort filters on the mailbox view, so you can choose "unread", resort, and the folder will be altered to only display unread messages. You can also choose any other IMAP flag attribute (answered, deleted, flagged, etc) to filter on, as well as "multipart". Eventually we will setup the ability to "promote" and save custom searches from the search page into sort filters. This would be VERY cool IMO :)
KMail has a search window that affects the currently displayed folder, and I've been finding it very useful.
I may play with your project when I get back, as mail has been one of my main projects for <ahem> many years, but for my webmail I need to keep in sync with a production server that has very illiterate clients, and to offer them as little challenge as I can.
Hastymail has many site wide options to restrict the interface such that users can do little damage :) Also the newest soon-to-be released version has db backend support for user settings and is fully templated for easy customization.
__ Jason Munro __ [email protected] __ http://hastymail.sourceforge.net/
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