Messages are sorted by received date, not sent date

[Bananas-Are-Yellow]

I am using Stalwart with a view to replacing Gmail. Yesterday, I imported about 50,000 Gmail messages going back 20 years into Stalwart. I can view them in Thunderbird, but I want to use a self-hosted webmail client. According to the Stalwart Roadmap, they will eventually offer a webmail client, but for now, they recommend: Roundcube, SnappyMail, SOGo, or Twake.

I already have Roundcube and SnappyMail working with Stalwart, and I'm now trying out SOGo and Twake to see which of the 4 I like best.

Today, I got Twake working with Stalwart and Traefik using docker compose. When I list the messages in Twake, they all show a date from yesterday when I did the import, rather than the original date for the message (the mbox Date header field). So the list of message sorted by date is useless to me.

• Thunderbird has column options for Date and Received. By default, it only shows the column for Date, which is what I want.
• Roundcube offers Sent date and Arrival date, so I use Sent date.
• SnappyMail allows me to order by Date, and this seems to be the sent date, so that's good.

How can I list messages in Twake by sent date?

[chibenwa]

How can I list messages in Twake by sent date?

Twake mail do not have plan for this currently.

As said on stallwart channel the root cause is loosing the "receivedAt" date upon the migration.

Also note that not all JMAP server are required to support sorting by sentAt.

[Bananas-Are-Yellow]

I am new to JMAP, but I think I understand what you are saying. The JMAP Spec, section 4.4.2 Sorting, says receivedAt MUST be supported, and sentAt SHOULD be supported. Looking at all the other properties that SHOULD be supported (size, from, to, subject, etc.), since these are all very common sorting fields, so I'd be very surprised if any of them are not supported in practice.

Can you test whether sorting by sentAt is supported and if so, offer that as a sorting property?

[Bananas-Are-Yellow]

I see that you do allow me to sort by Sender Name or Subject. These are also listed as SHOULD be supported for sorting in the spec. SHOULD, not MUST.

[chibenwa]

Feel free to contribute the "sort by sentAt" sort option I believe we would accept the contribution.

[Bananas-Are-Yellow]

I'm not familiar with the implementation stack you use. My background is .NET functional programming. I use F#, Bolero, and ASP.NET.

Perhaps you could add this enhancement as a good first issue exercise? Let me know if you do, and I'll subscribe to the issue so I can watch it's progress.

[Bananas-Are-Yellow]

I have now discovered how to get Stalwart to import mbox files with the correct receivedAt date, so the requirement for Twake to list emails by Sent date is no longer important to me.