Re: ProtonMail Bridge Patch

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Jakub Ječmínek <kuba@kubajecminek.cz> writes:

> "Eric Abrahamsen" <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Thanks a lot for this note! I'm glad you found a solution, but if
>> out-of-order FETCH UIDs are valid according to the RFC, Gnus should also
>> handle that.
>>
>> I assume the problem is in `nnimap-transform-headers'? Nothing in there
>> jumps out at me immediately. Or maybe the problem is that the function
>> doesn't sort the parsed headers, and Gnus' next step expects the headers
>> to be in sorted order?
>
> I might be wrong of course but I think that the latter and that there's
> good chance sorting the headers would fix this issue.

I still haven't found anything that looks like a hard requirement that
headers be sorted, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.

I also wasn't able to find anything explicit in RFC 3501 or 9051 about
the order of FETCH responses -- for my information, can you point me in
the right direction?

Thanks,
Eric