On Sep 8, 2006, at 9:17 PM, Stuart Johnston wrote:
John Rudd wrote:
On Sep 8, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Stuart Johnston wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When using a web client like IMP from Horde it seems the Date
header is kept
in the original format and never converted to my local timezone. I
figure that
if I converted the Date to my local timezone I would have people
leaving
messages in the future that always sit at the top of my Inbox. For
instance
it's still the 8th here in CDT but elsewhere it's the 9th and those
messages
now sit at the top of the list of messages to be read.
The IMP4 install on my server (which I don't generally use) does
convert dates to local timezone. However, sorting by arrival is the
only sensible default sort for an Inbox. Now, ascending vs.
descending is a different matter.
I sort by position in the mail folder, regardless of any date stamps.
But I don't know of any webmail clients that do something that
sensible. I generally stick to using IMAP clients that support that
feature (such as Apple Mail).
Hmm. All of the webmail apps I use do: IMP4, Hastymail, CGP. Sorting
by arrival generally means the same as by folder position.
IIRC, CGP's arrival date doesn't get updated when you move a message
between folders (as, if I'm remembering correctly, it's the date/time
the message was delivered, not the date/time the message was put into
the folder), so if you end up moving messages around a lot, the arrival
dates aren't in the same order as the order-in-the-folder.
CGP is the one I'm most familiar with (as that's what I use/run), but I
don't actually frequently use the webmail interface for webmail; just
for settings and rules. So, I could be wrong about what "arrival date"
means in CGP.
