[Leaplist] tagging or labels for IMAP backed mail

[Jason Boxman]

On Monday 06 October 2008 19:50:22 Derek Konigsberg wrote:
> 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.

That's fine, too, since it seems unlikely I'd find such functionality on a 
platform dependent software package.  On a Web platform, you'll always be 
able to get at the tags however they're stored on the server.


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