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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index c5281161..51b4dbb4 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/01/18 00:16:10 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/01/18 03:58:08 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ dumped to all my terminal sessions.</a><br> a line hit while downloading?</a><br> <a href="#O5">O5. Why is fetched mail being logged with my name, not the real From address?</a><br> <a href="#O6">O6. I'm seeing long sendmail delays at start of each poll cycle.</a><br> +<a href="#O7">O7. Why doesn't fetchmail deliver mail in date-sorted order?</a><br> <h1>Answers:</h1> <hr> @@ -1673,11 +1674,28 @@ Configuring your bind library to cache DNS lookups locally may help, and is a good idea for speeding up other services as well. Switching to a faster MTA like qmail or exim might help. <p> +<hr> +<h2><a name="O7">O7. Why doesn't fetchmail deliver mail in date-sorted order?</a></h2> + +Because that's not the order the server hands it to fetchmail in.<P> + +Fetchmail getting mail from a POP server delivers mail in the order +that your server delivers mail. Fetchmail can't do anything about +this; it's a limitation of the underlying POP protocol.<P> + +In theory it might be possible for fetchmail in IMAP mode to sort +messages by date, but this would be in violation of two basics of +fetchmail's design philosophy: (a) to be as simple and transparent a +pipe as possible, and (b) to <em>hide</em>, rather than emphasize, the +differences between the remote-fetch protocols it uses.<P> + +Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.<P> + <HR> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/01/18 00:16:10 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/01/18 03:58:08 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |