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I imported the messages with Thunderbird by using "Copy To >". imapsync is just great, but administrators are going to want to allow people to import their own mail. Easiest way to do that would be to tell them to copy in the messages from the email program that they use everyday. That would work fine, except for the way messages are sorted in the Zimbra web client. Can sort by date sent be made an option please? Is there a better way to do this that I'm missing? Assuming that I've not made any false observations about the sort order, I feel really strongly that this is something that should be configurable by the user for his or her account and set by default by the admin.

This isn't simply an IMAP issue. Messages that are dragged up, copied up, or moved up from "Local Folders" (tested in Thuderbird) have the same behavior. I can drag up a message from my local folders from 2 years ago and it appears that it is a brand new message. Thank you.

Oh, BTW, it is hard to search a forum for the words sort order. I think this may be more of a feature request post. Has someone already requested this feature?