[Leaplist] tagging or labels for IMAP backed mail

[Derek Konigsberg]

The way IMAP works, or and other mail protocol for that matter, you really don't want a solution that has to edit and replace the entire message.  With IMAP, the server actually understands the structure of the message, and also maintains metadata outside the message data.

Specifically, I'm talking about message flags.  The spec defines standard ones (\Sent, \Deleted, etc), but clients can also set custom ones.  So a good approach might be something like this.

-Derek

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:58:47 -0400, leaplist-bounces at leap-cf.org wrote:
> Aaron Morrison wrote:
> > Most clients that I remember playing with that support IMAP have a 
> > "flag" property.  Will that do? Or are you looking for more google like 
> > functionality with a named tag property?
> 
> Sadly, the latter.
> 
> Thunderbird's implementation is just a hack.  Each client needs to have 
> the same flagset defined in its pr> headers with, say, an X-Tagwords header with the actual words in them, 
> only lookup values for the local configuration.
> 
> I haven't setup Horde yet, but I'm hopping it might offer some hope.  At 
> least it supports sieve filters with a Web interface into them and 
> writes Exim .forward files with sieve rulesets...
> 
> Fear my DKIM signature!
> 
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