dovecot - Dec 2009 - outlook 2007 mailbox sort order

What are people doing to affect the sort order of mailboxes in
outlook?  Apple Mail and MS Outlook similarly suck in that they do
not sort '~' correctly -- mailboxes starting with '~' are first
instead
of last.  At least I think this is the fault of the client, since
Mulberry sorts correctly.

At least with Apple Mail I can drag and drop mailboxes into any display
order I like, so at least after the fact it can be "corrected".

I want to provide shared, virtual and lazy_expunge mailboxes.  I'd like
these to be last in the list of mailboxes.  This doesn't seem possible
with Outlook unless I prefix the names with 'zz' or similar.  yuk.

-frank

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:57:32 -0500
Frank Cusack <fcusack at fcusack.com> replied:
> What are people doing to affect the sort order of mailboxes in
> outlook?  Apple Mail and MS Outlook similarly suck in that they do
> not sort '~' correctly -- mailboxes starting with '~' are
first
> instead of last.  At least I think this is the fault of the client,
> since Mulberry sorts correctly.
> 
> At least with Apple Mail I can drag and drop mailboxes into any
> display order I like, so at least after the fact it can be
> "corrected".
> 
> I want to provide shared, virtual and lazy_expunge mailboxes.  I'd
> like these to be last in the list of mailboxes.  This doesn't seem
> possible with Outlook unless I prefix the names with 'zz' or
> similar.  yuk.
> 
> -frank
You can get a list of all available characters that are available for
use here: http://danhotchkiss.com/archives/38

Personally, I have always used numbers, the the most important folders
utilizing the lowest numbers.

I believe this behavior has been changed in Outlook 2010, which is
still in beta. I will check on it later today if time permits.

-- 
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com

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