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Re: folder display order in mutt



On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 03:25:10PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I'm having a problem with folder sort order in mutt. I have indentical
> mutt configurations on two boxes, and am synchronizing them with
> offlineimap. However, the folders will not sort the same way on both
> boxes, and I want the folders in all caps to sort to the top. For example:
> 
> Box 1 (non-IMAP, and what I want):
> 
>  1     drwxr-sr-x 34 nospam  nospam      4096 May 07 15:00 ../                
>  2     -rw-r--r--  1 nospam  nospam         0 May 07 14:32 OUTBOX             
>  3     -rw-r--r--  1 nospam  nospam         0 May 07 13:40 POSTPONED          
>  4     -rw-r--r--  1 nospam  nospam         0 May 07 13:40 SAVED              
>  5     -rw-r--r--  1 nospam  nospam         0 May 07 13:40 SENT               
>  6     -rw-------  1 nospam  nospam    116331 May 02 09:55 alaskaair          
>  7     drwxr-xr-x  2 nospam  nospam      4096 May 07 12:54 archives/          
>  [snipped for brevity]
> 
> Box 2 (IMAP, improperly sorted):
> 
>  1     drwxr-xr-x 76 nospam  nospam      8192 May 07 15:15 ../
>  2     drwx------  5 nospam  nospam      4096 May 07 13:57 debian-security-ann
>  3     drwx------  5 nospam  nospam      4096 May 07 14:36 debian-user-digest/
>  4     drwx------  5 nospam  nospam      4096 May 07 15:10 INBOX/
>  5     drwx------  5 nospam  nospam      4096 May 07 13:57 isecom-discuss/
>  6     drwx------  5 nospam  nospam      4096 May 07 13:57 isecom-news/
>  7     drwx------  5 nospam  nospam      4096 May 07 15:10 OUTBOX/
>  8     drwx------  5 nospam  nospam      4096 May 07 14:05 postponed/
>  9     drwx------  5 nospam  nospam      4096 May 07 15:10 POSTPONED/
> [snipped for brevity]
> 
> As you can see, the box using offlineimap is mixing the Maildir folders in
> alphabetically in a case-insensitive fashion, whereas the main box (which has a
> mix of Maildir and mbox files) is sorting them in dictionary order.
> 
> Both boxes are using the same muttrc, as far as I can tell. What could
> be casuing the different sorting methods?

locale setting? (LC_COLLATE)

Almut



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