[Dovecot] Future enhancement of imap: sorting?

[Andy Dills]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> I think Sieve (+ ManageSieve) could already do all of this. It's just
> normally meant to be used with MDA, but nothing would prevent from
> running the script when IMAP server sees it for the first time.

I hadn't considered invoking Sieve from imap, I'll look into that as a 
more scalable solution.

> > The idea for virtual folders based on search criteria is quite 
> > interesting, by the way. How would you enable users to create them from 
> > their client?
> 
> I'm just going to make it read the configuration from a file. How it
> gets there is not my problem, at least not yet. :) So it'll probably get
> some kind of a web configuration tool.

Makes sense. This feature has a large amount of potential and I would love 
to see it implemented. The possibilities are exciting, such as a adding a 
button to atmail's addressbook to create a virtual folder for that 
contact, which would contain mail sent from them, with a sub folder 
containing mail sent to them. Even something as simple as being able to 
associate a message with multiple folders without requiring multiple 
copies on disk is a nice improvement.

Do you have any timelines in mind for this feature? I'd be happy to help 
work out the bugs. No pressure, I'm just excited to offer new and useful 
functionality to our users.

Andy

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Andy Dills
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