On Monday, 05 January 2009 at 14:15, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Monday, January 5 at 11:34 AM, quoth Robin Lee Powell: > > Is there any way to sort by "from address unless it's mine, in which > > case use the to address"? > > Well, you asked a difficult question, so I'll break it into two parts: > > Part 1: Is there an *easy* way to sort by "from address unless it's > mine, in which case use the to address"? > > No, unfortunately, there's not. > > Part 2: Is there ANY way to sort that way? > > I think there is, but it'd require a *LOT* of work. One of the sort > methods is "score" where you sort your messages by a score that you > have control over. I *think* it would be possible to design a > sufficiently clever set of scoring rules that would allow you to > create the sort order that you like. But like I said, that would > require a TON of work. > > It would be much easier to ask the developers to make a from-or-to > sort order (to match the %F field of the index_format). This could be > painful for the IMAP driver, though, since the sorting cannot be done > on the server side.
We don't use server-side search yet anyway (which is one of the reasons mutt loads the whole mailbox on open). When (if?) we get server-side search and partial mailbox loading, we'll just have to have a fallback client-side mode for sort modes that the server doesn't support. That's what we do for search right now.
