RE: SORT on addresses

[Peter Coates <peter.coates@xxxxxxx>]

The display name of the group if there is one, failing which the display name of
the first address, failing which the first address. Is the algorithm.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Guenther [mailto:guenther+imap@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: April 12, 2007 10:33
To: Peter Coates
Cc: ietf-imapext@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: SORT on addresses

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Peter Coates wrote:
> Being incompetent, I replied, rather than replied all when I sent a 
> note saying that the Sun imap server uses sort keys X-SUN-TO, 
> X-SUN-CC, X-SUN-FROM to sort by display-name or if display name is not 
> present the email address.  For obvious reasons I like that algorithm.

The display-name of the first actual address or will it use the display-name of
a group?

Hmm, the current SORT address keys use the first addr-mailbox, so they don't
skip groups but will sort something like

To: friends: bob@domain, sally@domain;

with the key "friends"...which will be annoying if the display-name contains an
RFC 2047 word, as there's no mention of decoding them like there is for the
SUBJECT key.


Philip Guenther