Re: Messages saved in reverse order

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Matt Ackeret wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Stephen Casner wrote:
> >On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Steve Hubert wrote:
> >
> >> Without thinking too much let me suggest that you take a look at
> >> the hidden config feature save-aggregates-copy-sequence. Does
> >> that explain it?
> >
> >That string is not present in my .pinerc.
>
> Obviously you have figured out way more about the pine source than I
> have, but just FYI, I'm not sure if you knew what Steve meant.

I think I did/do know, but thanks for your offer of information
anyway.

> You can turn on the expose-hidden-config pref, and then you can see
> more configuration options, one of them being
> save-aggregates-copy-sequence.

Right.  That controls whether they show up in the configuration
screen.  But I was looking at the .pinerc file directly.  In order for
any of the hidden options to be set, they must show up in the .pinerc
file.

> The help for that feature says:
> However, many IMAP servers (including the UW IMAP server) do not
> preserve the order of messages when this optimization is applied.
>
> This isn't your issue since you didn't have it set, but it is one
> thing that could affect the order.

And in my case I was also not using IMAP because the mailbox is local,
even though functions in imap.c are executing (perhaps when they
should not be, I don't know).

                                                        -- Steve
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