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PROGRAM:

NAME

sortm - sort messages

SYNOPSIS

sortm [+folder] [msgs] [-all | -noall] [-datefield field] [-textfield field]
[-notextfield] [-limit days] [-nolimit] [-check | -nocheck] [-verbose | -noverbose]
[-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

Sortm sorts the specified messages in the named folder according to the chronological
order of the “Date:” field of each message.

If no messages are specified, the default is all messages in the folder. However, if no
messages are specified and the -noall switch is enabled, then sortm reports that as an
error and exits with non-zero status. -noall is most useful in the user's profile, to
avoid inadvertant sorting of an entire folder. The -all switch can then be used on the
command line to disable it. Of course, a message specification of all can be used in any
case.

The -verbose switch directs sortm to tell the user the general actions that it is taking
to place the folder in sorted order.

The -datefield field switch tells sortm the name of the field to use when making the date
comparison. If the user has a special field in each message, such as “BB-Posted:” or
“Delivery-Date:”, then the -datefield switch can be used to direct sortm which field to
examine.

The -textfield field switch causes sortm to sort messages by the specified text field.
All characters except letters and numbers are stripped and the resulting strings are
sorted datefield-major, textfield-minor, using a case insensitive comparison. If this
field is “subject”, any leading "re:" is stripped off.

With -textfield field, if -limit days is specified, messages with the same textfields that
are dated within `days' of each other appear together. Specifying -nolimit makes the
limit infinity. With -limit 0, the sort is instead simply textfield-major.

For example, to order a folder by date-major, grouping messages with the same subject on
the same date together, use:

sortm -textfield subject +folder

sortm always issues a warning for each message that is missing a “Date:” field, has a
“Date:” field that cannot be parsed, or has a format error in any header field. With the
-check switch, sortm inhibits all modifications to the folder if there are any such
messages, and exits with non-zero status. With the default of -nocheck, sortm sorts
messages with a missing or invalid “Date:” field using their file modification times.

When ordering messages based on their dates, if they have the same dates, their original
message order is preserved.

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