Problem with Display-based Address Sorting

[grpprod]

Hello to all,

I am using a 0.3 branch build of Roundcube (not sure which one - it was the latest SVN build when i fetched it). It works absolutely fine for a long time now, and have no plans on upgrading in the near future, as it has been extensively customized, and have a large number of users who don't like changes

I face only one issue which can be considered important. Sorting messages does not work as expected. I use Dovecot 1.2.16, and up-imapproxy. It is my understanding that Dovecot supports the IMAP4 SORT extension (draft-ietf-morg-sortdisplay-03 - Display-Based Address Sorting for the IMAP4 SORT Extension), so I would expect Roundcube to utilize server-side sorting. however it does not. When sorting to 'From' field, it actually keeps sorting to the email address which can be very confusing. When I sort to 'Subject' it is still messy. Have no idea on what criteria it sorts. (I see even '(no subject') messages are not consecutive). I have read about this issue, so I 've experimented as follows:

1. Enabled caching (which should presumably solve this since it would start using SQL sorting). No luck.
2. Enabled/disabled index_sort. No luck.
3. Bypassed imapproxy, and connected directly to Dovecot. No luck.

I have also tried Roundcube 0.5RC. I have noticed the following behaviour:

With default configuration sorting is still messy. When I enable caching, sorting seems to be done in MySQL, and this solves the problem. However, as I have mentioned, I can't make the switch at the moment.

I also include my Dovecot info:

* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
1 capability
* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS QUOTA STARTTLS AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN
1 OK Capability completed.


I would appreciate some help on this. Thank you and a happy new year to all of you.

[alec]

Enable imap_debug in 0.5rc, disable caching and provide the log.

[grpprod]

Thanks for the reply. I am confused though, as I have mentioned I don't use 0.5rc. I paste the log from the version I use (0.3), and if you need it I can also paste the log from 0.5rc. Seems to me that sort is working, so...it's really ackward. Here is the first part of the log (the rest is just FETCH commands for every message in the page - I include just one):

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[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE AUTH=LOGIN  XIMAPPROXY] Dovecot ready.
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: C: a001 LOGIN "user" "password"
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * OK [XPROXYREUSE] IMAP connection reused by imapproxy
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: a001 OK User logged in
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: C: cp01 CAPABILITY
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS QUOTA
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: cp01 OK Capability completed.
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: C: sel1 SELECT "INBOX"
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded receipt-handled $label1 $label2 $MDNSent NonJunk $label3 $label4)
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded receipt-handled $label1 $label2 $MDNSent NonJunk $label3 $label4 \*)] Flags permitted.
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * 608 EXISTS
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * 0 RECENT
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * OK [UNSEEN 606] First unseen.
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1247764975] UIDs valid
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * OK [UIDNEXT 36112] Predicted next UID
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1888] Highest
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: sel1 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: C: s SORT (DATE) US-ASCII ALL
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * SORT 1 2 161 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 73 74 75 72 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 108 107 109 110 111 112 113 114 116 115 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 127 126 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 224 223 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 397 387 388 389 390 391 392 395 393 394 396 398 399 400 401 402 404 403 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 415 414 416 417 419 418 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 443 444 442 445 450 446 447 448 449 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 512 511 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S:  538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 600 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: s OK Sort completed (0.006 secs).
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: C: FH12 FETCH 1,2,161,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 (UID RFC822.SIZE FLAGS INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM TO SUBJECT REPLY-TO IN-REPLY-TO CC BCC CONTENT-TRANSFER-ENCODING CONTENT-TYPE MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES DISPOSITION-NOTIFICATION-TO X-PRIORITY)])
[07-Jan-2011 06:48:19 +0200]: S: * 1 FETCH (UID 15325 RFC822.SIZE 3032 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "18-Jul-2009 13:07:07 +0300" BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM TO SUBJECT REPLY-TO IN-REPLY-TO CC BCC CONTENT-TRANSFER-ENCODING CONTENT-TYPE MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES DISPOSITION-NOTIFICATION-TO X-PRIORITY)] {451}