[prescor]

I'm a long-time POP-only user with 15 years' worth of archived mail. Eudora has served me well on my Macs over the years, but with their recent announcement to kill the product, I have been forced to seek alternatives. I see neat features in other MUAs that Eudora just never quite got right (like message threading) and I drool.

I found Zimbra quite by accident. Set up a test server and played around and loved it. The Web Interface is incredible, and I can set up IMAP clients too if I want.

So I set up a "production" server this morning. I configured my account and setup some server-side mailboxes into which I would transfer some of my local mail. (It's ALL local, because I have never used IMAP before!) Fortunately I chose something innocuous: my BUGTRAQ archive for the last year or so. Some 6300 messages. I selected all and dragged to the server-side mailbox and waited as Eudora contemplated this hefty transaction. A few minutes later the messages started their journey. I watched in utter dismay as the message started to appear in Zimbra as if they were all dated TODAY!! On the other hand, I was relieved that I hadn't chosen something I consider more "critical" to my Daily Productivity as a test case.

I patiently waited for the copy (move, really) to finish and then viewed the server-side mailbox with Eudora (after several more minutes of re-synchronizing) and was relieved to see that Eudora still gets it right and is showing me the "Date Sent" and sorting accordingly.

If the option to sort/list by "Date Sent" instead of "Date Received" isn't incorporated in the Zimbra interface, well, it's going to be useless to me. I would find this very unfortunate, as I love all other aspects of it! Now it may be that ANY IMAP server I try this with will react the same way. I don't know. If that's the case, well, I guess I'm stuck in POP-land forever. May my MacBook never die...