From: Tom von Alten (tom_vonalten@boi.hp.com)
Date: Fri May 14 1999 - 13:01:46 CDT
Following Paul Haldane's response and inspecting the isoreceived and
isosent tags, along with my system mail log, I think the misordering of the
messages is an artifact from my sending system's mail handling. That is,
the messages were not forwarded on to the hypermail system in the same
order as I intended.
Paul wrote:
> I'm _reasonably_ confident that the date index will be properly
> sorted (according to the date in the 'From ' line).
and Daniel told me that the thread index processes dates the same way as
the date index. The *reordering* of messages that I observed - isn't yet
explained, but I'm happy to not worry about it for the moment. (Here's
what I described earlier:
| In one test with six such messages, the most recent one was sent
| to the wrong end of the list:
| 18:18:29 Msg #5
| 18:18:28 Msg #4
| 18:18:27 Msg #3
| 18:18:25 Msg #2
| 18:18:24 Msg #1
| 18:18:30 Msg #6
| I sent a new message, and the order righted itself! Msg 7,6,...1.
Inspecting things after the fact, they seem to be properly ordered, as
received.)
My primary concern with multiple messages arriving close together was to
make sure the file locking was working, and I think I'm satisfied there.
On to 2a21 for the date issue, and I'll put the little patch I identified
for print.c in, to allow [ hm_showhtml = 0 ] to work as it should. I'm a
little suprised no one else noticed this; I typically want to compose, send
and view email with a fixed-pitch font, since that's the only way to get
consistent horizontal formatting in plain text.
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