On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 10:26 -0800, Mark Crispin wrote: > I recommend that these issues be punted to future work in new standards. I agree. Such standard could have: - THREAD=REFERENCES2 which drops subject merging and changes root nodes to be sorted by INTERNALDATE instead of sent-date. - FROM-FULL, TO-FULL, CC-FULL comparing user@domain - FROM/TO/CC-ADDRNAME doing the below: > > - The vast majority of mail clients display the decoded addr-name in > > the "From" column, falling back to addr-mailbox@addr-host if addr-name > > is NIL or blank. It's these strings that need to be in sorted order. > > If the server-side FROM sort results in the client displaying a "From" > > column that's not sorted, the server-side sort isn't useful. > > Sorting the addr-name opens a HUGE can of worms. I agree that there's no entirely correct way to do this, but clients already do this themselves so a server should be able to do it some way as well. I think most people would expect that it sorts in a dummy strcasecmp() way. Perhaps it could be defined as non-strictly-defined way so that in different countries the sorting could be done differently based on their local rules. BTW. What happened to morg list? Wasn't it supposed to talk about these kind of issues? It seemed to die after two weeks (or did I just get unsubscribed..)
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