[Kde-pim] Review Request: kmail - please add ability to display and sort by date received

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Donnerstag 17 Juni 2010 schrieb Thomas McGuire:
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> Thanks for coming up with a patch for this for SVN trunk!
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> Like Ingo, I'm not sure if using the Received header is the best idea
> here. For sorting by date of arrival, I would suggest simply comparing
> the item id, since the item id is strictly increasing. This was the
> way KMail 1 worked as well, it compared the serial number, which is
> the equivalent of the Akonadi item id.

Can the receive data of a mail be retrieved by the modification time of the 
mail file for local maildirs? That wouldn't work for IMAP tough.

Can Akonadi remember when it first saw a mail?

PS: I would like a way that Akonadi can store mail metadata with the mail 
file in case the Akonadi database gets corrupted. YAM (Yet Another Mailer) 
for Amiga AFAIK stores every flag in the mail file name of each mail. 
Akonadi could use extended attributes. It would add to the robustness of 
Akonadi when all its metadata can always be recollected from scratch if 
need be. (I can file an enhancement request regarding this.)

> Ingo, I don't agree that this feature is not needed. KMail had it
> earlier, before the new message list was introduced, and now we got
> some bug reports about this feature missing.

I have some folders where regular mails have wrong dates. It happens from 
time to time if a computer has a wrong system time. Incidentally I have 
seen this in the Amiga scene quite a lot. Some machines are quite old and 
their CMOS clock battery sometimes is not working properly anymore.

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