Pine and Outlook: Outlook messes up message ordering ... among other things ...

[rouble]

Hi All,

I have my pine and outlook clients pointing to the same exchange server
via IMAP.

Everything is running relatively smoothly. I can see all my messages
arrive in both clients simultaneously.

However my issue is that if I open and close an old email in outlook -
it shows up as the latest email in my pine email inbox. I have pine
setup to sort messages on their arrival time - and it's looks like
outlook actually takes an email off the server and re-adds it or
something - so pine thinks the message just arrived.

The same symptoms are seen after my outlook rules are run. The ordering
is a messed up.

I like sorting by arrival in pine because I feel it is more desirable
than sorting on the date.

Why does outlook do that ? Is there anyway to turn this off ?

Cheers
Rouble

 

[Colin M. McGroarty]

Rouble,

It sounds to me like the pine client is sorting by date/time
modified/accessed versus arrival. At least this would certainly seem to fit
the description. I'm not familiar with recent versions of Pine, but I
wonder if there is a way to change what field is used for sorting within the
program.

Kind Regards,