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kosowsky@consult.pretender (Jeffrey J. Kosowsky) writes:
> newsspam5REMOVETHIS@robf.de writes:
>
>> kosowsky@consult.pretender (Jeffrey J. Kosowsky) writes:
>> > newsspam5REMOVETHIS@robf.de writes:
>> >> kosowsky@consult.pretender (Jeffrey J. Kosowsky) writes:
>> >> > Occassionally, I find that messages file in my 'Sent' file via the
>> >> > "FCC:" line get stored out of order.
>> >> 
>> >> Physically they are stored in order of saving, which should be
>> >> the correct order when using just FCC.  If you save earlier 
>> >> messages later this gets screwed. 
>> >
>> > Interesting because that is not what I experienced. Later messages
>> > were saved before earlier ones as I detailed in my post.
>> 
>> When you toggle the headers you will see the time when the
>> message was written to the folder, at least for folders with
>> "From " as delimiter, e.g. 
>> 
>>       From USER  Fri Jan 30 20:14:10 2004
>> 
>> Is the order also screwed with respect to this time?
>
> In my original post, I excerpted the "From" and "Date:" lines from the
> last 7 messages in my 'Sent' folder

Ahh, yeah ...

[...]
> Now what is the best way to avoid this. Should I have 'FCC' also point
> to the 'Sent.spool' file so that sent emails passed via FCC from this
> computer and sent emails passed via bcc/procmail from my other
> computer stay in order?

IMHO you may loose messages or corrupt the spool-file this way,
as FCC handling in Emacs does not lock the file it is writing to
by he same means as movemail or procmail.

My advice is: Use a `vm-visit-folder-hook' that performs physical
sorting of the sent-folder when visiting it.

Robert.